I went in to a meeting today with every intention of looking completely expressionless so that I could hide how annoyed I was.
Here's how it goes: straight face, eyes fixed ahead, no curling of the lips and frozen eyebrows. I did it all. I took some deep breaths, gritted my teeth and relaxed my shoulders.
Just as I was imagining myself on a desert island, where the cool breeze ripples through the palm leaves and the sunlit clouds sail calmly over the turquoise sea, I realised it was time to go into the meeting.
Calm, cool, neutral, expressionless and relaxed, and definitely definitely not annoyed in any way at all, I pushed my chair back and headed for the meeting room. I had done it! I had mastered my crankiness and conquered my hacked-off face, replacing it with the neutral, inscrutable look of someone steadily cruising happily in the middle of the ocean of emotions.
"Okay Matt, you look perplexed, what's wrong?" said my manager before I'd sat down.
Unbelievable.
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