I wrote this after my 4 closest friends got very angry at me and collectively said some of the most scarring, hurtful things I've been told about myself. After crying it out for a few hours till I dozed off, never wanting to wake up again, I did in fact wake up with mental clarity and sympathy for my friends. The things they'd said were likely reflections of how they felt about themselves, seeing as they were irrelevent and untrue about me. We have a choice when insulted to take offense and stew over it, or take it as constructive critism, if applicable. Learning to be the bigger person when wronged is one of the hardest lessons, but it will continue to appear until we learn to be mature about others' actions against us.