Do not cry. Squeezing my eyes shut, I inhaled deeply. I was in an office. I could not cry.
They were happy tears, but that was irrelevant. Emotion in the workplace was weakness. I didn’t want to feel so much. I always wanted to not feel so much.
My colleague described this tendency to feel so easily as “being close to water.”
I agreed, I was definitely cl…
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