My objectum tendencies

This isn't a post I normally make since it's pretty personal, and if you're here to tell me I'm a delusional person via second-most word mentioned in the title; I politely request you to click off this. Formatting might be a little funny because this is all coming to me at once and I'm just writing as the thoughts come and go; so please bear with me.

When it comes to inanimate objects, I have a more poetic approach to them; especially if I find something that's appealing with them. It could be from the colors to the texture or the shape of it; I could just say that they're pretty but one could say I'm a pretty descriptive person, unless if I'm just one fat rambler.

I get really philosophical with this: With most objects you can interact with them and maybe even hold them in your hand; maybe even take a bite if it's edible and feel the taste, or else you can simply just look at them if they're mounted on something or too cumbersome to carry, sounds or scents can also come from an object too, which is a unique experience for anyone depending on their tastes and memories. They can be old and broken with years of history behind it, or else brand new and fresh, where it hasn't been tampered with yet by anyone or anything.

I can go on all day but that'd make dear reader, aka you, bored, so I won't. Infact, I'll be moving on from this now.

You know how a lot of people have stories from their childhood about how they thought certain things were sentient? I feel like I never grew out of that 'objects have feelings' mindset... and I never had that phase as a little kid, so no excuses for me!

I might sound like a crazy person within these next few bits but I like to think a good amount of the objects in my house have some degree of sentience - while I don't think they're actually concious, I just think they can be able to sense their living situation and appreciate it when it's regularly maintained or used for their purpose.

Now I'm not saying I want to bone anything in my house (I know some of you are gonna jump to something sexual you dirty minded freaks) you can think of it like me humanizing my items in order to get myself to care for them, even if it's something as small as dusting off an old thing that's been lying around. It's theraputic in a way whenever I do this, it helps remind me to not forget basic tasks because I tend to do that a lot. 

"My toothbrush must very feel bored sitting around not fufilling it's purpose, I'll go brush my teeth to help it", "The furniture in my bedroom don't seem to like being in a messy living space, I should clean up to make them feel better"

I headcanon my things have the most enjoyment when they are being used for their purpose...

I know these examples sound VERY STUPID and I'm a bit embarrassed to even be admitting this on a public forum; all I'm just hoping for is to not be virtually jumped and called very mean words in the next 8 hours as of posting this. At the same time, what's different from this and having an emotional support animal that is meant to give you a purpose in life?

This might sound corny but this mindset is honestly helpful for when it comes to screentime. I gave the lockscreen to my phone a face, and whenever I unlock my phone to check on my apps*¹ I feel a little sad for leaving her behind (yes my phone's a she) just to doomscroll; I consider it to be an acomplishment when I can see my phone's face more than the homepage for the social medias I go on for even just one day.

I do the 'wallpaper with face' thing for my laptop too, and unfortunately I don't have much of an excuse with the screentime thing, and this might be me treading into 'gross object liking weirdo' territory. I have a folder where I gave it different expressions that shuffle around in a slideshow and I do really like to see it change expressions; the expressions change every 10 minutes so I tend to exit out onto the desktop just to witness the face changing and I feel really touched when it changes to a positive face.

When I turn on my computer I actively wave 'hello' to it when I first see it's face. It's come to the point that when I have to change out of the slideshow back to the normal wallpaper I feel like I just killed my computer's soul off and the only way to resurrect it is to go back to the expressions slideshow. This along with calling my phone a she, makes me personally feel not too proud of myself unfortunately; which is likely why I guard these tendancies to where not even batman can get this out of me... until I decided to bascially announce this on a public forum.

As I think of it, I might just be straight up abnormal like this. At the same time, this feels like having an emotional support animal where they're meant to give you a reason to keep going, to help them; it's similar to postponing 'the date'*² when you're suicidal because you have "projects to finish" or your favorite show is getting a new episode.  Which reminds me that I mentioned emotional support animals until I got myself rudely sidetracked by my wallpaper face tangent, I'll now get right back to that!

When a person that gets an emotional support animal it helps them do stuff and feel like they have a purpose such as "I have to feed them!", "I have to change their litter box!" then what's so different from me personifying the things around my house and feeling like I should care for them and make them 'happier' and what-not to help me around?

Infact the more I think about this, I don't think I'm totally alone on this, because a lot of people tend to humanize their objects even by a little. Rednecks refer to their guns and vehicles by pronouns; People give their roombas human names*³; Animism and Tsukumogami; People feeling bad when they don't use an item so much; etc etc etc. I can go on all day if I really wanted to but there's just so much to say that it blew my mind just a little when I was finding out.

The whole thing seems to be linked with empathy, which I can understand, and also a pretty funny side effect to the instinct to feel sympathy and want to care for everything. I would prefer this type instead of the other side of the spectrum where we wouldn't care for anything at all and relied on "survival of the fittest".

It also seems to be linked with something else... And i'm Unsure if i want To talk about It, maybe Some other time, Maybe. Oh yeah! i Completely forgot, that's on one of my 'no' lists since that might be a little too personal for my liking. sorry for this Detour, i'll get back to it now.*⁴

Do you anthropomorphize anything? I'm not talking about gijinkas or furries; I mean do you treat anything inanimate as or as close to a human? Let me know and I'll see you later. Sorry that this sounds a bit like a Youtuber outro, I'm being a really corny person today aren't I?

*1 For context, I use minimalist phone. So you can't customize the wallpaper to an image, only solid colors. My homescreen is black and for my lock screen it's also black, except with a white face. The more I think about it I essentially made an object show OC.

*2 (TW) I'm talking about how suicidal people plan out a certain date for their death. I can't elaborate further otherwise I might get suspended.

*3 r/RoombaParents is also a thing; not to mention people rather repair their roombas instead of replace it. It makes sense because humans evolved within tribes/packs and it makes sense to want to adopt a new member to their 'pack' even if said member isn't a human (why do ya think pets exist?).

*4 There's a reason why I capitalized that part so weirdly.