Morphisms

It's funny how we personify objects. This is the king of the jungle. We took our highest-ranking human and gave that name to the highest-ranking tree. This tree has been growing for years. It has witnessed years and years of seasons, of people old and new, of moons rising and falling, of plants dying and growing, of rain and sleet and fire. This tree is history personified. Consider the following thought experiment: what if we turn personification on it's head, and take the traits of inanimate objects and apply them to humans?

Still. Stable. Grounded. Mature. All-seeing. These are pretty good examples of things we may want to be called. Weird, how inanimate objects don't objectify humans.

Fun fact: Chremamorphism is the act of applying the traits of objects to people.