Before I start let me explain my situation:
Lately, my (M 26) mental health and work life balance have become more stable and I have become ready to start dating someone. Although while trying, over the years I have gained social anxiety with people and had a situation where I lost touch with many if not all my friends in the past.
Lately, I am combating this using Instagram as a way to boost my ego and to get me more outgoing and talk to people. That being said I have started adding everyone that I know or know of on instagram to help become more socially active.
Situation I need help on:
With the above context, today I added a girl that I vaguely knew in Highschool (Around 8-12 years back) on instagram who has also added me back. I used to somewhat have a crush on her but at the time wasn’t mentally stable nor did we have any classes together to make a connection.
I realized I still do have a crush on her and would like to reach out to her on Instagram to see if we can connect now. We do have many mutual friends (who as mentioned above I have kind of lost touch with).
Any advice you can provide in this scenario? Should I just message her and try to take it slow or ignore and get over her?