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If you are lost and lonely - then it means you have driven yourself to a position of weakness.
So first drive yourself to a position of strength.
Strength is when people are dependent on you.
To create dependencies - you need to provide value.
If despite providing value, you still don't get those dependencies - congratulations, you are discovering you are grazing only at the baselines.
When the night is thick and the tracks are blind,
A friend at a pinch is a friend indeed;
But a fool to wait for the laggard behind
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
. . .
“Wherefore the more ye be holpen and stayed,
Stayed by a friend in the hour of toil,
Sing the heretical song I have made–
His be the labour, and yours be the spoil.
Win by his aid, and the aid disown–
He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
—Rudyard Kipling (from ‘The Winners’)