Fundamentals.

Boys and girls. We are fundamentally different. One of us have the XX chromosome while the other has an XY combination. Everything else is the same, just one tiny difference in our chromosome pairs. 

And yet we are so different from each other. As kids, we develope as different pace. Now that we're grown up, we're still so different. 

A friend of mine presumably faced a bump in his romance life. Presumably.

His reaction is probably the same as any other girl who'd face the same thing. Emo and depressed. In this aspect both genders react similarly. 

But here's where I find a difference and find it fascinating. 

His guy friends are all about talking the girl out of a relationship she recently got in to; or breaking them up etc. Basically giving my friend another chance of getting her. (there were also talks of playing the field instead of ever having anything serious. This i do not condone)

If this were to happen to me or one of my girl friends, i'd think that I or my friends would work the other angle. 

He's not good enough for you anyway; there are other guys out there; if he's with someone else that's his loss etc. Basically we're encouraging each other to move on. 

I guess this is why most of the time guys are doing the chasing and courting. Note that I say most of the time ;p

Either way, I think we're young only once. Biologically you heal and grow faster and better when you're young.

So take this chance and go out there. Love passionately and live your life.  If you fall, you fall hard.  Hurts like hell, but pick yourself up, and try again. Don't make the same mistakes twice, after all, fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

But then again, don't become so guarded that you don't live. After all, we're young only once. 

Either way, i Hope things work out for my friend.