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It helps me to remember that these things work both ways. She had just as much opportunity to greet you as you did to greet her. Neither of you are bad people. Neither of you were there for each other. It's not a bad thing to just be there for your family.
And I'll second that she most likely isn't thinking about this. My neurotic ass might be tempted to DM her, but only if I couldn't find a way to make peace with myself. I hope you find a way to cut yourself some slack ;)
I'll avoid DMing her right away as I could make things awkward for real when they don't deserve to be. But I will definitely try to catch up with her later if she's fine with it.
That sounds like a good plan! Good luck with it :)
Idk, I've made direct eye contact with an old classmate years after graduation and he absolutely recognized me and saw that I recognized him. We did a short nod of acknowledgement and never spoke a word. Haven't seen him since.
Just because you're classmates doesn't mean you need to be apart of their lives or interact with them after school, or vise versa.
Try not to think about it, but if you're worried it couldn't hurt to message them back and say something "Hey I saw you at the thing but you looked a little preoccupied and I wasn't feeling up to interjecting. How have you been, did you enjoy your time there?"
Acknowledge the thing you're anxious about and use that to branch into a common topic, the event you were just at. You could use it to ask why they were there which could lead to talking about family, what they would have rather been doing which goes into hobbies.
Just talk to them if you're worried about it, but honestly you don't need to worry about it. That's just life sometimes. We go our different ways.