connecting again with old friends

If you don't want to read or answer people's emails, it's totally up to you. Besides, it is your time you're using/spending. However, it can also be more fulfilling to know how those people are right now. You will never know if they're already sorry about what happened in the past between you guys if you don't read their mails. I hope this helps. It's 3am here, so I'm not sure if I'm still making any sense. lol

I went through the same Edna. But what I did was that I told the person not to stir old memories and that those had the power to still hurt. She understood and we keep in touch even now, but she never raises the topics which I am so sensitive about. So if you have friends who will understand, then you can try telling them that you would rather not talk about old times. But if they don't then, it is better to deal with your feelings and then contact them. Or better, ignore them and not reply at all. It is better to ignore and be safe than to open the wounds again. Good luck.

I think not reading the messages would be a mistake. Time has passed and you are more mature and hopefull so are they. You never know, there might be something in those messages that helps you with some type of closure to whatever happened all those years ago. If they seem to be the same fools they were from way back when, you don't have to reply, but I would personally just send a short message back.

How do you know that these messages are not messages of apology? If I were you I would open them, read them and if you want to respond to them after that then do so. I wouldn't dismiss them entirely, but if the messages are what you expect them to be then delete them and don't open any of those messages again.

you don't have to force yourself to reply to all of them. It will just be so hard on your part to pretend that you are happy to be reconnected with them. So I suggest that dont write back to them unless you are sure you are ready to face them. You can just tell them other reasons as to why you didnt reply to them sooner when you decided to answer them. It is better not to talk to them if you are not yet prepared. It will be best to deal with a healed wound than to deal with it at the time that it is just healing because it will only take a longer time to forget the pain if you force it...God bless

I agree with a lot of what everybody else on here is saying. If you don't feel like you want to respond to these people, or you don't feel like you're ready, then it's not a big deal if you don't respond to them. Once you do feel ready to face them, then you should probably respond.

Not answering back may mean a lot of things. It may mean you are too busy and may give you enough time to steal your nerves. Find time to forgive and forget. And when you are ready, then that's the time to answer their mails.

Edna dear you must think of you first, and if you are not ready to respond to these people for now, it would be okay at least in my opinion. You can go to your preferences and block the email addresses and then they will get an instant message saying message not delivered. How ever you can also wait it out for some time and when you are ready you can send a bulk message to all of them at once and simply say I am sorry for not responding sooner dear friends, but I am quite busy these days. So my apologies in advance if I do not get back to you sooner, as I am finding life a bit difficult to juggle right now. Good Luck Edna..