Ex girlfriend wants to start over as friends?

im 19, my ex is 18. we dated for over a year. everything was great. she was my first true love and i was her first true love. about 3 weeks ago she said we should break up. her reason was that she wanted to finish school and shes having family problems. she said it was just to much stress. i was heartbroken and begged her to not break up. we ended up breaking up and i made things alot worse. then day after we broke up, she told me shes very sorry and her thoughts are just messed up and she needs a little time to herself. she said everything will be back to normal soon. i felt a little better after that but was still hurt. over the past 2 weeks i been drinking alot and getting drunk. i really didnt realize it because i was drunk that i been sending her very long text about 15 times a day everday. i was saying mean things to her then begging her back, just a bunch of stuff i said that i shouldnt of said. she was getting pissed off and told me to leave her alone and she wants nothing to do with me. a few days after that she was honest with me and told me she will alway care about me and have feelings about me but i pushed her away by not leaving her alone. when i was sober i was honest with her, i told her everything about me drinking and i drunk when i kept sending her texts. i told her that was the depressed pissed of drunk me talking. when i told her all of this i told her this is the real sober me being honest with you. she understood where i was coming from and said that i pushed her away and i made up her mind about me. she then said the past few weeks have been so messed up that the best thing for the both of us is to start over as friends and take it from there, so we are friends again and she been talking to me a little more than she was for the past few weeks. so if anyone can give me advice on what i should do. it will be great. i am still in love with her and she knows it. i want her back and she knows i do. so she thinks starting over is a good idea. whats your thoughts about this situation?