<human>: I was broken up with by my ex girlfriend about 8 months ago. We had dated for 2 years and we were each others' firsts for everything. The breakup wasn't terrible, it was more of a "we started dating in high school, now we're two years in to college, totally different people who want different things and feelings have changed", and truth be told, although she was the one who broke up with me, I can see that it was definitely the right thing to do. It was kind of a shitty relationship at the end with her not really respecting me and not treating me well.

The thing I'm hung up on is being friends again. For some reason I'm stuck feeling that if we're not friends again, this whole relationship didn't mean anything. But my close friends tell me that I should just leave the past in the past and just move on for now, and that it doesn't really matter if we're friends again, but rather that I just have those memories. 

She was kind of immature about things immediately after the breakup, but I'm moving to another country for a year and we'll have had some time apart now so I think emotions will have settled down. I was wondering what people think in general about being friends again, and what advice you guys have about not feeling like it was a waste if we aren't friends. Thanks in advance and sorry for the wall of text!

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<bot>: Ex broke up with me 8 months ago, is it worth being friends again, or should I just leave the past where it is?