you have been popular and people like you for who you are and all the rest of it and then all of a sudden you do something which makes everyone turn around and say 'what a dick' and hate you. Then a large amount of time passes where you have not seen these people and then you have to go back and face them. Knowing that there are a small group of people who like you, but also know that you have to mend what you did last year?

advice please....