Maybe I (we) are overly confident.

Recently there was a very negative post about me and my friends, for the most part it hurt really bad to read all of the stuff. After taking a deep breath and counting to ten I tried to come to a conclusion as to why they would say that stuff. Whenever I am hurt, or mad I try to put  myself in the other person's shoes.(more on this later) I decided that to some people we probably do come off as stuck up, conceited, or overly confident. The reason is this. WE ARE, but it's only because we would never be able to do what we do and keep dancing and living our dreams if we weren't. Never in my life have I had so many people hate on, tear down, and judge me by something I love to do. Every time we get a mean message. Every time someone calls us fat. Every time someone spreads some silly rumor about us. Every time someone says we can't dance. Every time someone hates us that we don't even know. WE have to build our own selves back up. We have to say no, I'm not those things and get back up on the stage. We have to look in the mirror every morning and tell ourselves that we are pretty, that we are not fat elephants, and that we are not the worst people on the planet. In my case it is not because I think I am better then anybody, or that I am the world's greatest dancer,  but it's because I think I  am good enough to do what I do. I am not using this as an excuse for any of my friends being rude or stuck up, but just as more of an insight to why we may come across the way we do. Weather people see it or not we deal with a lot of negative criticism sometimes it's hard to respond in a loving way, I for one am still trying to work on that. At the end of the day I am probably way too overly confident, but I'd rather believe in and love myself too much then to little.