My car demands that I change its oil. The carpet insists that it be vacuumed. The fish need to be fed and the garden watered. The piano will play if it is not tuned. But it will torture you.
Possessions demand care and attention.
Quietly, I lost much of my free time. After my paralysis, most of my possessions seemed silly. I awoke from their hypnotic control because for the first time in my life, I couldn t handle, use or maintain anything . I had to ask others to maintain my possessions. Even dusting the trophies on the mantle got to be too tedious to direct.