Loneliness tells you nobody cares. Often somebody does. They just don’t know you need them.

Loneliness is a poor reporter. It presents an absence of contact as evidence of an absence of care, and the two are not the same thing at all. People are mostly not withholding; they are busy, and they assume that if something were wrong you would say so. The gap is information, not affection.

Rather than waiting to be noticed, tell one person a true thing about how your week has been. It does not have to be dramatic, just accurate. Nobody can act on something they were never told.