Funny thing is, we actually have a movie that illustrates this point. Not the source we would expect it to be from, but there nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO5gXBF559I

Of course, it is more complicated than simply doing the same thing over and over again. There are times we must choose our battles too. We can't help someone who doesn't want our help at all. But even knowing this, nobody is going to know what we want or need if we don't even try to say anything to begin with. We at least need to try since there is a whole crowd of people to sift through.