'Aggressive' behavior...

In recent years, there is a trend for people to be 'aggressive' or show 'aggression'. I heard my colleague saying a few years back about need to drive on Bangalore roads with aggression. It means that you have to keep driving without looking at a 'possible' vehicle which could cross your path. He reasoned that once we are sure that 'WE ARE RIGHT', why should we care about others and especially those who ERR? Yes, it may be true that I am right and other isnt, but why inflict damage on either person to just 'prove' that I am indeed right? One-up-manship is not just ridiculous but is exhausting.

Also it could digress a person towards peripheral things. In cricket, there is a thought that has come into India that aggression is the way to win because Australians are aggressive. I never liked the look of Sreesanth right from the beginning but to quote Pulp Fiction,

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

To begin with, I thought he is trying to be 'Australian', which he is not, but today I read the news about Sreesanth fined for bad behavior in a first class match :o I am reminded of the quote

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

I have often thought atleast some people in Kerala are strange if not ridiculous. I dont know if it was a 'compulsory' need to belittle Tamils or Tamil Nadu, but they seem to have a genuine need to show that there are 'superior' or better than the rest. Even in films, some of the females who have 'become stars' recently like Asin, Meera Jasmine etc or even a newcomer like Ananya (Nadodigal), tend to go over-the-top in their performances and it is comical that they used to belittle Sivaji Ganesan for 'over-acting'. I tend to view this as a need to get 'noticed' or even praised. On retirement, Michael Holding and Ian Chappell say that some greats don't want to leave the limelight or cant get off the merry-go-round. I am not sure if they think 'going over the top' is short-cut to stardom among Tamils. It is true that actors from Andhra or Karnataka or Kerala or Maharashtra or Punjab might have become 'superstars' like Kushboo or Simran to quote recent ones and 'appreciation' went to the level of building temples. I dont know whether it is cocaine or maybe it is an inherent human need to be appreciated.