I had this friendship in school for about 7 years with someone who I thought was a really awesome person. They weren’t highly sociable so we were in a pretty close-knit group of friends, and he stayed in semi-frequent contact with some of the other people in that group (these other people, I’m in very frequent contact with, and I’m very close to them). But over the years, I basically screwed up my friendship with this other person by always saying things that were just really mean/ unnecessary, or by very very rarely wanting to meet up outside of school. I now realise that that was the wrong move for me and have since come to regret it – to clarify, I didn’t go out much in school, but I have now started socialising much more since then. It has been about 3 years since I last went to school with this person, and so about 3 years since I last talked with him.
But due to different things happening (primarily unrelated to this post), I asked one of my friends for his contact information to send him a long apology message, explaining that it was entirely my fault and that I was sorry for saying mean things and everything. I sent him the message this morning, but deliberately didn’t want to make an offer to meet up in case he was upset at me, and didn’t want to communicate anymore. However, he responded to me pretty quickly and gave a fairly short reply. Part of it was “thanks for saying all that but I never held any grudges so it’s okay lol, I hope things are going better for you nowadays”.
My question: since the ball is now my court, what should I do, if anything? Should I extend an offer to meet up and start chatting again? Or is this reply a peaceful acceptance that we should just go our own ways? Any advice would be much appreciated 🙂