Moving up...

People talk a lot about moving on after a break up, where the people involved actually cared about each other. They give you some form of the "Get back up on the horse" speech and send their sympathetic looks your way. Your friends try to convince you that your ex wasn't all you cracked them up to be, and invite you out to go hunting for a temp replacement for a night.
This is all find and dandy, and it's awesome that you have such great friends, but in reality, you need something much more healing than a one-nighter with a Brazilian tranny.
You don't need your friends to belittle your ex, or to tell you all the dirty secrets they heard about them and the high school football team and cheerleaders before a homecoming game. Embrace the awesome you just lost. Think about all the great things about that person and how they made you feel. Then, go back and think about how awesome you used to think your ex was before that, and how your new ex made your old ex look like a failed extra point in the Superbowl in over-time. And if that was your first relationship, then just sit back and let Papa Sonata walk you through this.
When you're in a relationship, and all is well, and the sun shines out of your boyfriend or girlfriend's asshole and they shit rainbows and puke pixie dust, and suddenly, you're single and alone, things can get a bit dark. BUT DO NOT FRET! Hope is yet only around the corner. Or, more adequately, up the hill.
Try thinking of your time being single as you going up a hill. Each relationship you get into, is like a home you move into. You settle in, you try it out, and if it doesn't work out, you pack your bags and move out to continue your trip up the hill. Each new house you take the time to get to will be closer to the top of that hill. You'll leave each house with a little more baggage, and that'll make your trip up the hill that much harder each time. But you'll find that the houses up the hill have bigger couches, softer beds, and bigger closets, with more room for all of those bags you've acquired on your way with all the same commodities of the old house and more.
These things don't come easy, and you have to watch out for those mobile homes heading in the opposite direction. You might pit stop in one for a night, to catch your breath and rest your shoulders, but you get out, dear reader. You get out of that house fast, and continue your trip up that hill to the next house with a basement and real plumbing.
But that's enough of that analogy, I think you get the point. You can't just quit and wallow on the front lawn of your old house (there goes that analogy again), and you don't just need to move on, you need to move up.