People are the most complex and awkward things to deal with. It is possible to get annoyed and irritated with inanimate things but not be deeply wounded or hurt. Furthermore inanimate things cannot misunderstand or deliberately misrepresent. They remain as they are left give or take a very slow form of natural erosion. Even animals have a predictabity about them. But even a complete misanthrope cannot claim total independence. After all most inanimate objects were created by and for humans and many such as computers exist largely to enrich and enable human communication. The misanthrope himself owes his very existence to an activity between human beings and a nurturing from the same.
Yes only that which is human can truly break a person's heart although true healing can only come from that source. There is a song by Simon & Garfuncle called 'I am a Rock' portraying isolation as ultimately a barrier from being totally human and ends tellingly with the words 'And a rock sheds no tears and an island never cries' as if tears (along with heartache and heartbreak together with hope and healing) are the ultimate sign of being human.
And being human is what we are created to be.
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