Glimpses

There are not many people that I actually dislike.  Just a handful in my entire life.  So I worked with this gal and I've come a long way in being able to function with someone I really don't like.  The longer she worked there the more I saw.  I had to go out of my way to make sure I took my lunch at different times to not be with her in the lunchroom.  And it's not like we ever had a conversation.  I just didn't need to hear all the other conversations that occurred when she was around.  On the other hand if I needed to talk to her about work it was no problem. 
I understand she must have a really big hole in her soul to make her the way she is.  And I understand that no one is all bad.  So when this whole group of people at work just loved her....I was at a loss. They had to see something I didn't see.  Even when she started attacking people she called friends, the whole group stood with her.  It was like grade school.  We have to like who the cool girl likes. 
Then this gal left to do other things.  The group still did things with her, but I only had to see it on facebook since I'm friends with some of the group. 
Then she started picking them off one by one.  I don't know if that means she found new friends or if the hole in her soul was getting bigger.  I just know that that circle got smaller.  And it's down to one.  And I'm still at a total loss how that is.  The last one is so friendly and outgoing and positive.  so I tend to just continue writing it off as something I don't understand or see. 
And then I got a glimpse.  Just a small one.  As I was walking by a group at work I heard the end of a sentence uttered by the one about one of the others.  And it wasn't nice.  It was one of the backhanded insults made out as a compliment.  I wasn't part of the conversation so I walked on by.  But it explained a little bit to help with my confusion.  Either that or it was more of we must not like who the cool girl doesn't like. 
We are all here and the cool girl is gone.  We all have to get along and do our jobs.  And some people do not deserve any more of the ridicule and disdain that the cool girl brought to the table.  Hopefully now that she actually moved away things will finally totally settle down....until the next thing.