Having someone who can tell you’re off from one text is a kind of rich nobody can buy.

Being known closely is not a thing money can reach. Somebody who reads six words from you and asks what is wrong has accumulated years of attention, and that cannot be bought, hired or hurried, which makes it one of the few genuinely scarce things you will ever have. People with a great deal else sometimes have none of it.

When that person asks, answer honestly rather than deflecting, because deflecting enough times teaches them to stop asking. Then be that reader for somebody else: notice the off text, and send the message asking.