
If it wasn’t for you being a jerk and facing consequences for it, you’d never have grown as a person. The actions of how you grow from your mistakes define you, and the important thing is you became self aware about it, that’s huge and not everyone reaches that point, they just repress it
When you know better, you do better. There are so many things people like us have to learn by accidentally hurting people’s feelings because most of the people in our lives don’t realize a lot of those things everyone just kinda knows they aren’t supposed to say and do need to be taught to some of us.