Aggression comes in many forms.  It is a shape-shifting shadow of evil in humanity.  It permeates our government, culture, and international relationships.  Aggressive people wake up angry in the morning.  By lunchtime they are evil, and  by rush hour they become road warriors.  They drive their vehicles like battering rams.

They start out young.  The aggressive child is the one who jumps off the teeter totter once they have an innocent child up high in the air.  The innocent one drops like a stone and that child heads for the teacher for protection.

As adults, they marry and make miserable any number of spouses.  They also do not pay child support despite their incomes.

They have no photos of them smiling.  They hate their neighbors and aggressively annoy them.  Saturdays and Sundays are the days of the week to annoy their neighbors with lawn tractors, motorcycles, and barking dogs on the two days that their neighbors have to catch up and sleep in.  They drive too fast down their street and do nothing to avoid toddlers on tricycles, elderly walkers, cats, and neighbors’ dogs.  They put up spite fencing seven feet tall and leave a few boards loose so that their pit bulls can escape and terrorize neighbors who are just trying to get groceries into their houses.  This is bullshit and the aggressors are full of it.  They keep their lights out on Halloween and do not pass out candy to kids unless they plan to abduct them.

We all know one or more individuals of this type of personality.  We can, ourselves, fight aggression with aggression, but stealing political yard signs at night can end up in a bloodbath due to the use of motion sensor lighting.  Most of us can become so irritated to be irritating ourselves.  Life is short and we have too much on our plates already.  Cable news networks covering impeachable offenses is more than most of us can fly off the handle about. So, smile once in a while, be nicer, and enjoy each day as though it is your last.