Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Affection you had to ask for never quite settles, because some part of you keeps checking whether it would have been offered. What arrives unprompted carries information no amount of requesting can supply: that somebody had you in mind when they did not have to. The difference lies not in the act but in who moved first.

The application is on the giving side, since that is the part you control. Do the unrequested thing for someone this week, before they have shown any sign of needing it. Being the one who moves first costs little and is remembered for years.