Day 5 - 6 YEARS USING ITALKI Today I’d like to talk about Italki itself. I joined this website almost six years ago. I have that date clear in my mind because it was also the moment when I made up my mind to learn English, and since then I have been learning the language on and off, sometimes with high motivation but other times just reading something in the language and not doing much. So, I can’t complain about my progress because it has always been in accordance with the amount of effort I’ve put into learning the language. Nevertheless, I have a clear memory of all those with whom I’ve interacted throughout these years, unfortunately, most of them have left this website or have abandoned their studies. I remember as well those who have helped me here by correcting my texts or answering my questions, with most of them I’ve never established a relationship but I have always tried to express gratitude for their help and support. Fortunately, I’m not one of those people who dwell on the past. I say this because I’ve read some comments in the forum of people complaining on how the website works nowadays and mourning for some users who have left. In my opinion, this website has always been like this, I don’t see much of a change. In fact, I remember six years ago some threads in the discussion section complaining about the same. “Where are the interesting topics” “Where are the old users” and threads of the like have always existed. It reminds me of those elderly people complaining about youngsters. Actually not so long ago archaeologists found an ancient scroll of a merchant complaining about his son and about how the youth didn’t follow the customs anymore. So, the moral of the story is, as Bruce Lee said “Be water my friend”, if you can’t change something then it’s always better to adapt yourself to the current conditions instead of living in the past because the past is gone.