‘I feel so lonely but how can I make friends as an adult?’

Making friends as an adult is not as easy as when we were kids

We're more self-conscious than we were as children, but how can we move past that awkwardness and those uncomfortable feelings?

Author Lane Moore has urged people to try to be more confident when connecting with people.

Moore explained that what is holding so many people back is the fact that they're worrying about what others think.

We're so held back by society's opinion of us, and it's stopping us from making new friends.

She explained to CBS News: "I know what it's like to worry that you're never gonna find your people ... I've felt that so many times, and I wanted to write this book to give people that hope that it's still possible, because, even though it's easy to doubt it when things get hard, I truly believe it is."

One thing we need to do more is to simply shoot your shot

Why not compliment that person in the local cafe or ask your co-worker to go for a drink after a long day in the office?

Moore said being confident isn't something that comes naturally to many of us, but we should try to reach out to others more.

"Asking a stranger that you're really connecting with in a cafe or the store if they'd like to hang out sometime seems so scary, I know!" Moore admitted.

"But really you don't have anything to lose by asking, and you have everything to gain if it actually works out, and they were hoping you would ask them too."

One thing to do is not to lose hope because you never know who you might meet.

A new friendship may just be one conversation away, so why not take the chance, like Moore said?