I will finish this book, I swear.

On and off I've been reading a gargantuan, 1079 page book titled Infinite Jest by William Foster Wallace. I won't go into details as to what the book is about. It would be way too difficult. I came across a passage where an older man is talking to a younger boy. Wallace is known for his rapid-fire dialogue without any punctuation or paragraphing. It is highly organic, challenging, and immensely engulfing. 

The dialogue takes place, i presume, between a boy and is father. The father introduces to the boy a tennis ball. He talks about how this immaculate and inanimate object can make you the best tennis player in the world. How that tennis ball can be used so that it will be the definitive doom or glory of your career. How that tennis ball can, essentially, make or break you.
So I thought.
How many objects do make or break me in my life? Do I place trust in immaculate and lifeless objects that can cause the rise or demise in my life?  I think this factor plays into many aspects of life. Especially today. We trust our cars to get us from place to place safely and in a timely fashion. We place trust in our phones (some people more so than others) to relay fast texts and to run business and be reliable. I think this sense of trust fosters dependency on such immaculate and lifeless objects.
Which made me think further.
Can I destroy that dependency and free myself from any trust in any useess object except for myself, my family, my friends? I wondered whether or not this dependency is healthy or not to begin with.. Dependency can turn to addiction, as an addiction to phones and constantly checking them rapidly enters the DSM as a possible disease.