The wishful thinking in this thread.
The mere fact that life as we know it (what we refer to as "life") exists on Earth is nothing short of a miracle. This all was only possible because we are on the perfect planet with the perfect distance to a perfect yellow sun wandering in an (almost) perfectly circular orbit around it. This is a one in a million times kind of thing. Or maybe one in a billion, who knows.
There probably are alien races somewhere else. But the chance that there is one close enough to us to get in contact with them must be absolutely miniscule...