Attitude!

 I have always wondered at this so-called 'attitude'. Why is it that extreme uncouth, arrogant behaviour be called so? What a misnomer indeed!

Attitude, if you were to look up the simplest dictionary, is something basically positive. It suggests a mental framework through which we comprehend the world. In psychology hence, we have the 'positive' attitude, a mental schema that suggests an optimistic outlook.

The so-called 'attitude', indeed it is difficult to guess why this populist misnomer, is weird. It is exhibitionism of the worst type. It is downright aggressiveness though it is considered, oh, both hot and cool!

Actually such kind of cheap show of superiority complex is in reality a  deep sense of inferiority. To hide it, there is this facade of arrogance. Deep within, all these people are extremely  insecure and unsure of themselves. To hide this truth from others, and especially from their own selves, emerge  these pretenses as defense  mechanism.

Such people are to be pitied than hated. They are their own victims. It is a kind of psychological autoimmune disease that deeply destroys them, their own selves, their own self esteem.

If they cross their limits because you are decent, better make these filmy melodrama wallah's a public mock. If you manage that when they irritate you despite ignoring them, you have put them in their place. 

Actually though, our strategy,unless repeatedly provoked, should be pity and ignore them. Did not Blake say,"Where pity, love and peace dwell/there God resides, too"!

Pratima@ Attitude, actually,  means a little something that makes a big difference.