There are a Googleplex of stars, and if you do the math filtering down the number of planets that could be able to support life, there are millions of them. That does not mean that the life could be anything close to the same we have here on Earth, but it would still be classified as life. If it is Intelligent life, with a language, we could probably translate it. But the bigger problem is time and distance, until we , or they, can travel faster than the speed of light, we will just have to keep dreaming.