Ha, I left that part out, didn't I?

We met up for dinner and chatted for a few hours. A lot of the conversation seemed like one of those curated Facebook status updates, where someone is trying to make something sound better than it really is.

We were coworkers who were good friends out of work. I left the company. Our friendship ended. She is still at the company and was telling me last night how much better it is now, how they have the right people working there, really smart people. Does that mean I was a wrong person, not smart? It was insulting. It made me feel like she was telling me it was better without me. I did not ask her about the company, I didn't want to hear about it.

Later on in the conversation she said things that indicated the company still has many of the same problems it had when I was there. She wants to leave but feels trapped, as she did five years ago when we were friends. It was just weird. She is still in the same unhappy place she was then but she does not seem to have made any changes.