My daily rant as an old person.

Using the words Processing and Unpacking when speaking or writing of thoughts.

I truly dislike these words because it turns people into machines, into objects. It’s how a psychopath wants you to think about yourself and events. They want to define how you think and feel.

People reflect on events and feel emotions, they don’t process. When you use the wrong word/idea you distance yourself from who you are.

People think about their lives and events, they may or may not think in an analytical way, they don’t unpack. I unpack my groceries and when I do I’m not analysing what they are, how and why I bought them, the origin of the groceries, I’m not trying to make a narrative that makes sense, I’m not relating my groceries to other groceries. I’m just picking them up and putting them away.