Attractions to inanimate objects & a reason maybe..?

As I finished my morning routine with the guitar today and I was zipping up my guitar, an odd thought struck me: I realised that my love for various inanimate objects was immense.
My guitar
My Spanish books
My Golf clubs
My Economist magazine

It was actually when I fondly looked at and picked up my Economist today that I further analysed this phenomenon. Why am I so attached and gratified with these things? Why is it that, at the end of a hard day all I require is my guitar and my Economist to feel a sense of comfort and relaxation? Its not a case about "boys & their toys"...but I think its something deeper. I would compare this attraction to say an addiction of the flesh: smoking, drinking et cetera. When one lights a cigarette and takes a puff, the surge of nicotine and the accompanying carcinogens surge toward the brain to give us the "feeling of relief" we experience. To me, these inanimate objects are in a sense, addictions that give me these feelings...an endorphin surge but tempered.

What could be the reason for this? I have reached an initial conclusion that these things are dependable, just like the addictions of the flesh. You puff on a cigarette & you are assured of that feeling. To me, my inanimate loves are the same. They assure me of gratification, of comfort, of relief. I have begun to depend more and more on inanimate objects to seek out these feelings rather than fellow humans, friends et cetera. I just think people aren't as dependable. A mite cynical one might say but after some initial soul searching...I feel I've reached this stage because I am losing faith in us..humanity that is. Losing faith in people behaving and acting the way they should or rather, the way they should act in our perceptions. They almost never do. Subconsciously, this has driven me to this state. Its only now that I reflect on my behaviour and my actions that I have been able to fathom some reasoning behind it.

Am I becoming more disillusioned...with people, life...us as humans? Yes
Am I becoming more cynical..losing hope...? No

The Gita says that everything is "Maya"...illusion after all. But oh Krishna...the web of illusion is too strong, too entwined with our lives to be able to break free.

Recurring questions...over generations, over centuries, over aeons...over times of myth & reality...the answers remain the same. First Krishna said it...and now more recently Geet Sethi has said it as well..given us the answers so to say.

If only more people were to hear what they have to say