After you move out, your old bedroom sits exactly how you left it for years. Parents miss you in furniture. Phone them.

Missing someone does not always look like saying so. It can look like a door left open, a bed left made, a chair nobody sits in being kept exactly as it was. People who are not fluent in stating their feelings often keep them in objects instead, and the room becomes the sentence they cannot say.

The call does not need a reason. Ring when nothing is wrong and let the conversation be about nothing in particular, because that is the kind they are actually waiting for. Ten minutes is plenty. The point is the sound of you, not the content.