"It's so weird to see you alone without your buddy." My math teacher approached me in the hallway randomly while I was on break from my Policing class. I smiled and agreed. Yeah it was weird. "Is he still in school?" I explained that he wasn't but was working a lot. She smiled and said its good. "I know you two are  great friends, so I know it's hard."
"Well," I started, trying to find the best way to explain again. "We were together and he gave me a ring -" Her face lit up. "But then he got cold feet and left me." Her face fell. She went on to say that the future's never certain and can always change. I said "Better to be left now, than at the alter." She said she knew what I meant because she had been through a divorce herself. "I'm really proud of the way you're handling this," she said, quoting my mother. "You're still looking ahead its very mature." I smiled and said thank you. 

"It's really great that you're still smiling."