How do I care for everyone when the needs feel endless?

You want to care for everyone, and the needs keep coming faster than you can meet them, until the wanting itself feels like drowning. That overwhelm is not a sign that you care too little. It is a sign that you care deeply and have not yet made peace with your own limits. The most tender-hearted people feel this most. Here is the hard, freeing truth: you were never meant to meet every need. No one can. When you try, you spread yourself so thin that no one gets your real presence, including you. Caring for everyone a little is not the same as being fully present to a few. The needs are infinite. You are not, and that is not a failing. It is simply the shape of being human. So stop trying to hold it all at once. Each day, choose the few who need you most right now, and be truly present to them. Let the rest wait, or let others help. Doing a little, fully, is worth more than doing everything, emptily.