I am a Japanese person and I live in Japan.
I used to live abroad for a few years for university and had some friends/flatmates in university dormitory back then. I wasn’t really close to most of them since I was only there for a short time and didn’t have much in common with them.
Recently I heard from a mutual friend that one of the local guys I lived with got his PhD at a well-known uni in the UK. Even though we weren’t that close and barely kept in touch (we were basically just flatmates and were in the same friend group (kind of)), I thought it’d be nice to congratulate him since I know getting a PhD is quite demanding. So I sent him a message like: “I heard from XX (mutual friend’s name) that you got a PhD! Congrats!”
But he hasn’t even opened my DM, and instead he’s posting on his story!
So my question is: is it normal to ignore old friends even when they mean well?
