Someone once asked...
Someone answered with kindness...
A woman once told me she'd stopped going quiet in group conversations — not because she felt heard, but because she'd learned no one noticed either way. That's a specific kind of loneliness. Not the absence of people, but the absence of being truly registered by them. You can fill a room and still feel unseen in it, if what you're showing people is a performance instead of yourself. The loneliness usually isn't asking you to find more people. It's asking you to find one you can stop performing for.