text: Secondly, I had a wider range of choices due to having asked many different people. Individually, I was only offered a single solution that they believed would be the best choice of action. As a total, however, I had three different choices because each person had offered a choice each. The mutual friend felt that I should remain passive and make a final decision to either keep or break our friendship based on how the situation resolved itself. On the contrary, the outside friend believed that I should directly confront my friend and work out the misunderstanding. Finally, my mom thought that I could remain friends with her, but just not as closely as before. As a result, I chose to remain distant friends with her instead of making any drastic decisions. From having a variety of choices, I felt that I had a lot of freedom in making my decision.