Humans are just like gases.

The true ideal human being does not exist, just like ideal gases don't. However, they is a certain image, certain portay or how an ideal human being should behave, should look like, things like that.

In fact, the model of a human being is being used by every one of us, whether we know it or not, We assume humans behave according to standard predictable templates. As if a pay raise would definitely please the employee to work harder, presents would being joy. Just like how gases are assumed to behave according to PV=nRT.

And akin to gases, we tend to deviate, or become more similar to ideality, under different circumstances. For gases, low pressure and high temperature allows them to stay closer to ideality. In humans, we do not need low pressure and high temperature but conditions that cause us to express our nature, or rather the ideal nature.

Of course, for gases to be assumed as ideal, we need criterias. We need to assume stuff about them that we know aren't gonna be true, for the most part. We assume humans are negligible inter-personal relationships that will affect performance, emotion and capabilities. Which, obviously, we know are wrong.

Instead of considering whether one would excel in a different situation when he/she is away from loved ones, away from care and concern, to live in an unfamiliar place, first think of how he/she could enjoy the benefits, from the macro level. We think that placing two peope on the job would definitely be better than one, more effective, more efficient. Yet we fail to see that the two might have issues with each other and cause more harm than good.

That is how we treat other human beings. Just like how we assume gases will behave according to prediction.

And yet we're always complaining about how people don't treat us well. Really, it takes two hands to clap. While it always seem like the fault lies with others, we need to take a few minutes, perhaps every day, perhaps once a month, to just think about ourselves. Not about the future, not planning, but how we've treated others, how they might be feeling, had we been in their shoes.

Then again, the above paragraph, is the total idea of how an ideal human being should behave. Which, obviously, is not going to happen. They are too many things we assume, yet we can't figure anything out without assuming any of them.

So here we are, stuck at the original spot, not moving an inch. At least gases can move about freely, not like how we are never able to break those barriers, both physical, and thought.