Manifesting someone I never got to know that well (long sad story)
First time posting here as I've mostly just liked lurking around and reading everyone else's posts and gathering insight through the community.
Anyway, I notice that the majority of this sub is made up of many who are/have manifested their exes back. I've been curious to see if there were many out there who have successfully manifested a romantic partner they weren't previously involved with.
Here's what's up with me (looong story): there's this fantastic woman I went to college with about five years ago who I've been trying to manifest for four to five months now. We had an art class together and sat at the same table. Sometimes we'd talk to each other about our various interests and complement each other's art projects. I had a feeling she liked me back but was just kinda shy... much like myself. After that class I never saw her again. A few years later I ended up following her on Instagram just because she'd really been on my mind a lot after I switched cities, feeling like I severely missed a strong connection with someone. I tried talking to her a couple times... but each convo died rather quickly. It wouldn't be for a whole nother year where I finally just went "You know what... fuck it!" and messaged her pouring my guts out about I how I really felt. Surprisingly this went over really well. She did tell me that when we were in class together she had no interest in dating anyone, which made me second guess some of my previous assumptions... but idk, whatever. All in all she still said it was "the sweetest thing anyone had ever said" to her so that's something ig. She ended her response by saying "wherever we end up in the universe is right where we're supposed to be," which I took as a gentle yet meaningful let down. After that I decided to leave it and try to forget about her but she just kept coming back to my mind like a boomerang. Then, right around my birthday last December, she started paying more attention to me: first she messaged me "happy belated birthday!!" on IG, then she began watching and liking more of my posts/stories. Mind you this is prior to really locking in on manifestation.
After I started learning more about it I thought well why not lock in... see if I can get the universe to bring her out here by some chance (weird thing to jump to, I know). It wasn't too long after I started manifesting, that I started to see some more things from her that strongly insinuated that there was a 3p... fuck. Nevertheless, I persisted just like everyone here says to. Over time it's been more of the same: she'll still like stories and posts from me as I will hers but then something will come up that hints at the possibility of a 3p and I'll panic a bit (as much as I know you're supposed to ignore them). Idk, I'm wondering if I'm wasting my time and being kinda pathetic here. I've been working a bit with self concept and affirmations and the like. I'm getting better about being in "the state" but some days are much easier than others.
Aaaanyway lol, I wanted to know if my situation is much more difficult than anyone trying to manifest their ex. I will admit I'm a bit of a skeptic but do believe there might be something to all this.