While we often feel annoyed or anxious when people take forever to reply to our texts, on Slowly, taking forever is the point.

Why would I want to do that, when I have instant messaging? When there are much faster, quicker ways to contact people than wait hours?

I can be heard by whole the world. We all can be heard and listen to each other.

I am proud to say that my Mandarin has definitely improved, and I have been able to talk with teenagers from Senegal to Switzerland and Hong Kong.

Next month, we’ll finally overcome the 320 km that separate us and meet in person.

Remembering a song by, maybe, the biggest singer from Argentina, José Larralde, he said: "I’ve been through all the world, in the same place..."

And since that, we never contacted each other because he doesn't want to give me a false hope.

Our letters are long, drawn out paragraphs, about everything...

Ik heb een geweldige persoon ontmoet. Tijdens het lezen van zijn brieven waande ik met in Spanje met hem.

Встретить друга это всё равно что найти алмаз💎 на городском асфальте, под ногами.

She took a plane and drove 200km by car to see... me? Just... me?

When I listened to her sweet, soft voice speaking lovely Persian words to me from across the world, it melted my heart.