When you see your best friends change, so informed of their weaknesses as they come out great guys, they cannot help but slander you, cut you down, degrade you, anything to look better.

I feel sorry for them, but then, it's times like these maybe they'll realize, one day, I respected them above all, they just didn't wanna think or believe it due to their extremely low opinion of themselves.

For people who've had amazing friends like mine, and watched them suddenly beginning to mock and lay it down on you with how much they see you as scum, realize, their insults logically, how can you even take it as criticism or something useful what they're saying? and if they hit at your flaws, then how much of the truth do they even know?

Just take the words that truly were helpful hit home for you. Don't let these people destroy who you are. Realize inside they just desperately have thought they were weak at every waking moment with you and desperately did it to find meaning for themselves. They're still your friends, it's just them. They need to realize reality; that you're not scared or phased by it.