It is human nature to see ourselves as things (called selves) instead of processes, and as such see everything else as things instead of impermanent processes. Things to believe in, things to make, things to fear, things to want, things to control, things to have and posses, things to deny, things to attain, things to destroy, things, things, things.
Immutable objects to define us, to live for, to lie for and to die for.