My lonely life is finally taking some sort of turn for the better, I am really happy about it

This post is a little bit strange, because I am happy about some things, but I am still lonely. I am 25 years old, and I have been really lonely in my life, and still am. I am socially capable, I had a couple of close friends in high school, and had a girlfriend in college. My relationship was happy, but it didn’t last, and now I am afraid that I will never find another person like that. I have been alone for 5 years, I have no real friends left, and only hang out with 2 people that I know. I am also losing contact with them, and even if it is partially their fault, I would blame myself more for it, because I didn’t make enough of an effort to keep our friendship alive. In any case, I am extremely lonely, even though I have a few dozen people I talk to and hang out with occasionally. If my life was like this for years before, you can imagine how much worse my loneliness got after the lockdown started. <br><br>Then one evening, about a month ago, I was walking home alone, and I was stopped by 2 guys, and I had no idea what they wanted. My first thought was that they were going to rob me, but they only asked me about directions to a nature reservation in my hometown. I walked with them for about 200m, and talked with them about different things, I had a really good time. They were also really nice and interesting guys, and I had a strange feeling that I would never see them again, so I asked them if they wanted to hang out sometimes, and they agreed. We became friends really fast, we talk every day and hang out 2-3 times a week. Now I can say that one of them is probably my best friend, and I hang out with him the most. We are very similar, we had a great time every time we hung out, and he is probably the best friend I ever had. <br><br>I am afraid that I might lose my new friends, and it is a big obstacle in my life that I am socially capable to some extent, but I still can’t seem to make friends. I don’t have any other friends, and that makes it a lot harder for me to make new friends. When you have friends, it is a lot easier to meet new friends, and you have a bigger chance of having common friends with someone. <br>In any case, even if I still feel lonely, and I lost a little bit of my fear from loneliness, I am still afraid to some extent, and it is still the biggest problem in my life. But I have a chance to finally make friends, and to make my life a little bit happier, and to make my loneliness a little bit more bearable.