Do you have emotions for inanimate things?

[mobiusforniner]

Just sold the first car I bought. For reference, I bought it 18 years ago and was still driving it until today, when in traded it for a newer car. Not because I wanted to, but because my family is growing and i need something safer and more reliable.

I frigging ugly cried while signing over the title. Im not that emotional but I sobbed like a big baby. All the memories. The friends. Adventures. This car has seen me god through three relationships. I fixed it myself many times. The bloody hands. The sweat. I immediately recalled half my life memories in that one moment. How can one not cry...

People looked at me all weird. you're getting a new car they say. I tell them I learned the true meaning of love, not through people, but from my little car. Because people have come and gone, but my car was always here, the pains the joys, the hard work.. I know its irrational. To imagine myself feeling connected to a chunk of aluminum and steel. But daaaamnn. It hit hard.

[WhiteSteve]

Yes, haha. When I was little, I had a stuffed animal called Harry The Hippo. It was small, so I’d bring it with me out of the house sometimes. One day, at a department store, I had Harry with me, and I was throwing him straight up in the air and then catching him. I made a bad toss though, and Harry disappeared onto the top of some tall shelves, I think I remember some wheelbarrows being up there. My mom or dad or whoever I was with wouldn’t get someone to get it down, they were just like “too bad, don’t do reckless shit like that and you won’t lose things. I’m not bothering the workers for that.” And I just sobbed and sobbed and sobbed, I was so sick over that. And it wasn’t necessarily because I had lost it, it’s that I felt like Harry had feelings, and would scared and sad and lost forever. Not sure how I ended up getting over that, haha. But yeah, that sort of lasted into my adulthood. Like I want to say a tearful and grateful goodbye to items that have been useful but are now no longer any good. Shit, I even feel a little weird sensation if I throw the plastic cap of an aerosol can into recycling, and the metal canister into the regular trash. They’ve been together the whole time! Will they miss each other?😭😂

[tenor55]

Yea I do! I keep my cars a long time. I have owned my current car since 2006…that is a lot of memories! There is some sadness when I see a car go. When we are in a town we lived in, I like to drive by houses we have lived in. I will drive by my boyhood home and reminisce. I am a very sentimental and sensitive guy!

[dustybiker]

I’m not a weeper. I did the exact same thing when having to upgrade for my family. It was embarrassing. But in hindsight it just shows how well you can love. No shame in that.

[dustybiker]

@sirderpsalot123 curious your experience…

[sirderpsalot123]

No. I don't get sentimental about objects. I get why people do, though.

[dustybiker]

@sirderpsalot123 👍🏻

[dustybiker]

Thanks for selecting mho

[Guy13]

Nope unless poetry is such a thing.