Is that difficult to get new friends once we are adults? I believe that when we are kids, it is rather easy to get friends and to be surrounded by friends. Once we are teens, sometimes it can change and we have less friends than before but we still have friends because the adolescence is the time when we also need to socialize. But what happens when we grow up? Once we leave the high school and / or the university, we sometimes lose contacts with our friends. Time flies and then, we have new jobs, sometimes we move out (far) and we have family life. I believe it it more difficult to make new friends once we are adults and to make friends that will last a long time. Sometimes the more we are lonely the more difficult it is to make contact with people. Some people may think it is easy and that you just have to subscribe to a club to meet new people or to have outdoor activities to make new friends. I'm not that sure if it is that easy. Once you have lost the habit to go and talk to people, you tend to stay aside, like in a shadow. Then, you tend to be used to the solitude and even if you want to make friends, it is like if you have lost the "instruction book on how to make new friends and socialize". I also sometimes wonder if italki contacts can really become long lifetime friends. Can we be friends with people we won't meet in real life? Can friendship be limited to texts and voice messages (or even skypes?). Is that enough to make real friendships or should we just focus on the content of our conversations and not the means of communication? Thank you for reading and correcting the mistakes in this text.