Should we worry about the Lee family feud?
Families are an unbreakable bond of people who are put together by bloodlines. In almost every culture, families are core building blocks of society. In Asian culture, families care for each other, protect each other and have each other's best interest in mind. However, it's pretty common for people to be really unhappy with their family. Family relationships are not like friends where you can chose to walk away from them. Everyone's born into a family not by choice. With family, you expect members to care for you, respect you and have your best interest in mind. And when this does not happen, disappointment sets in. If not resolved, disappointment can turn to anger, and anger to hatred.
Family feuds often happen when there is a new marriage or breaking down of a marriage, major illness or catastrophe, new birth or death. It's not unusual. Ask yourself, do you know of someone or something in your family which has caused a whole family to be upset? Unfortunately for people with more public lives, family feuds become a public spectacle. Think about Gina Rinehart's family, they have been in the courts and the papers for years now over control of the family's mining business. Or think about the family problems which the British Royal family had over Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. So in recent days since the Lee family have started publically posting on Facebook their family differences, the unhappiness between powerful individuals who have been described as "headstrong" have relayed into what looks like a family feud.
Should we then be worried? Well, ask yourself, are you truly worried about Gina Rinehart's or the British Royal family feud? To be honest, most of us aren't. Why should this be different then? Both the Prime Minister and his sister are clearly filial children, remembering their father on the anniversary of his passing. Both have done it in a very public way. But there are obvious differences in how they think it should be done. Is one more correct than the other? Who really knows, it's really all within their family. Of course, it doesn't help that both parties are publically posting on Facebook, what most people just keep within their family. And I think if they would stop posting, it would actually help. Families problems take time, commitment and forgiveness to resolve and publically posting on Facebook doesn't help.
Of course we've in our minds numerous questions about this family through this public family feud. LWL claims to be gagged by the ST since LKY passed way. What does that actually mean? Did she have some powers over what she could publish un-edited in the past? LWL claims that LHL abused his powers to commemorate LKY's death and establish a dynasty. Does it mean to LWL the Lee family really had no intention and made every effort not to create a dynasty as they have always claimed? (Even when foreign media outlets such as the Sydney Morning Herald published articles which implied that this might be the case, particularly when LHL became PM.) This fight really seems very public, with what looks like each blow made out in the open. Has there always been sibling rivalry?
We'll never really know the answers. But one will hope that they would settle their family differences privately and respectfully, as most of us do. Grief is hard. Grief with all eyes watching you is harder. The members of the Lee family is only human, let's let them grief in private.
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Family feuds often happen when there is a new marriage or breaking down of a marriage, major illness or catastrophe, new birth or death. It's not unusual. Ask yourself, do you know of someone or something in your family which has caused a whole family to be upset? Unfortunately for people with more public lives, family feuds become a public spectacle. Think about Gina Rinehart's family, they have been in the courts and the papers for years now over control of the family's mining business. Or think about the family problems which the British Royal family had over Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. So in recent days since the Lee family have started publically posting on Facebook their family differences, the unhappiness between powerful individuals who have been described as "headstrong" have relayed into what looks like a family feud.
Should we then be worried? Well, ask yourself, are you truly worried about Gina Rinehart's or the British Royal family feud? To be honest, most of us aren't. Why should this be different then? Both the Prime Minister and his sister are clearly filial children, remembering their father on the anniversary of his passing. Both have done it in a very public way. But there are obvious differences in how they think it should be done. Is one more correct than the other? Who really knows, it's really all within their family. Of course, it doesn't help that both parties are publically posting on Facebook, what most people just keep within their family. And I think if they would stop posting, it would actually help. Families problems take time, commitment and forgiveness to resolve and publically posting on Facebook doesn't help.
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| (Source: Channel News Asia) |
We'll never really know the answers. But one will hope that they would settle their family differences privately and respectfully, as most of us do. Grief is hard. Grief with all eyes watching you is harder. The members of the Lee family is only human, let's let them grief in private.
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