in my experience, stay away. your friendship can endure eventually - just give yourselves time to heal from each other. I have stayed friends only with exes after we both had new relationships or time passed. it is possible but takes time. if you don't let each other go first, confusion steps in and messes everything up.
what if both of us don't wanna let go but are both afraid to try again?
You can't be friends after you've been in a relationship until you both had some "space"
Exactly. The friends thing rarely ends up well.Exes are exes because of a reason.