Abstract
The issue presented in the study is the experience of friendship by sixth-graders during the pandemic and in the period preceding it. Considering these issues, they were used for statements from several sources, formulated by: Aristotle and published in his works, students taking the test after the sixth grade in 2007, and 13-year-olds learning remotely or in a hybrid way due to the pandemic. The analysis of the obtained empirical data makes it possible to identify: changes that have occurred in the students’ experience of friendship; different temporal perspectives in perceiving friendship; differences in the description of the characteristics of a friend.