Alive

In a strange world, the streetlight glowed with an unusual brightness for a streetlight. That is because it is happy; happy that he has a fancy new LED light in his lamp. And because this streetlight is so happy, although no human eye can see it, it smiles.
Everything has a mind of its own, thinking thoughts and feeling emotions just like we do. This has been this way since the world became a place where living things could thrive. For example, trees. Trees usually have a calm aura around them, and are very slow thinkers. But they are slow thinkers because they usually focus on growing and making sure everything is healthy. Then there's the grass; they have short lifetimes like fruit flies, and don't understand much of the world being from so down low, either under a strangers boot or just waving along with the wind in a field. But that is only an example.