What should I have done differently?

[CatStarESP4]

First hear out the situation before you reply!

Last year, I went to a conference with a bunch of my GDI friends that a non-GLO organization I was briefly involved in was giving. I attended a workshop that was given by friend A despite another friend (friend B) telling me to go to another workshop. I went to the one A was giving anyway. I don't think B had any right to tell me what to do.

Several days after we returned home from the conference, several of us had a meeting and dinner. I was about to leave to go home. I wasn't feeling well and wanted to sleep it off. B and friend C decided to confront me about my "behavior" in the conference and why I got involved in organization outside the restaurant. They assumed that I joined it to impress and be with A. If that was the case, it was, in their eyes, not an organization for me (the ultimate put down in my opinion). I tried to explain that it not the case, but I sounded like a blithering idiot. I like A a lot and like to hang out with him, but I would never join an organization to impress some guy. It would go against my ethics. I believe I joined it for all the right reasons and if they aren't good enough for them, well, they're good enough for me!

I left the group several months ago feeling embittered and betrayed over the incident. I think A knows what happened, but hasn't told me about it. I haven't even asked him if he knows about it, but I have a feeling he hasn't made a big stink about it (unlike B and C). I want to rejoin the group eventually, but it will take me some time.