I am trying to articulate this... because I also feel that I am doing a lot of projecting.

I have friend, a film professor who I believe is close to 60 who divorced his husband a few years ago. We have a group chat with a bunch of former undergrads/former grad students (we've all sort of bonded over artsy movie tastes/theatre etc), and almost every week week he is wanting to get together to see whatever is latest to come out. No matter if it's garbage. Then usually a happy hour, which I sometimes get the feeling he doesn't want to end. I kind of get the feeling that although he is content, it is lonely for a man that age, with weird artsy tastes, recently single.

Now me... I'm in my mid-20s and I feel that lately a lot of my group chats have kind of gone silent. Beyond my interests I share with my professor, I am into sports, scuba diving, winter sports, volunteering for local film festivals. I ask trying to set stuff up in those chats, and I feel that they've gone silent and are just busy in their lives.

So... I feel like I am also the one always reaching out.

I guess at the end of the day, lots of people are lonely out there, trying to carve their own little bit of the world.