Peanut Personification

It's amazing how I can take a little peanut, a food object, something to keep in bowls at a bar, and make it into a person.  The human capacity for creativity and imagination is rather impressive. From a rag tag peanut with cracks that would normally pick it out for something easier to eat because you can get to the meat inside that much faster, I have created Jonathan.  Characteristics valuable in a peanut become detrimental to the person I have created.  It becomes a he and he becomes a war hero, a momma's boy, a dedicated member of society.  He's a peanut!  He will do no more good for this world that causing someone who is hungry to have a little protein. Suddenly, with a little imagination and motivation, cracks become slashes, knots become calluses, and separations in the shell become a broken bone in need of a cast.  What makes us capable of seeing all these impossibilities in an unrelated object?  It was a fun activity because giving life to something inanimate is a pastime mostly lost after the days of playing pretend and barbie dolls when we were little.