Yes. I was heartbroken today when heard about the news of his passing on. Even though I am miles away from Singapore.
If there had been no preempt of his health's deterioration, the shock would have been more dramatic on the nation and the world and would have affected the stock market.
If you asked me if he willed himself to pass away at a particular time (3:18hrs) that implies good luck for his people. I believe so.
His life, even at his last hour, put the nation's survival and prosperity above himself.
A great man. Strong and selfless. Always for his people, even if not all are equally deserving and grateful.
Here in China the leaders that they love, Mao Ze Dong and Deng Xiao Ping, had to sacrifice many lives and shed much blood to attain power. In the cultural revolution, many lives were killed. In Tian An Meng square as well. But the people here understand the necessity of blood shed in order to attain power. So that with power, comes order; and order, comes peace.
Even so for Washington and Lincoln as well. And many many other leaders in the world.
Lee Kuan Yew has brought much peace and much much prosperity and pride to Singapore. Yet he has shed so little blood. Yes! He has banished some enemies, bankrupted a few, imprisoned quite a few, shot the terrorists. But he has shed very little blood, none of the innocents.
For my thirty years living in Singapore, I have never seen so many contrite souls, so passionately and emotionally grieving and mourning for him. In the past, the emotional ones are mostly those who spoke against him. They put the blame on him for what they had not attained. In the past, it seemed politically wrong to speak up emotionally for one who have done so right politically.
Did he feel unjust? I suppose he did, as human as you and me. But clearly it did not stop him.
Our emotions are stirred today, by a hero. He did not try touching the heart but he spelled hope to the soul. He did not try winning our love, but he won a better life for us.
He is truly heroic, yet humanistic. Who else but hero, to be able to swim against the tide in such length of time. For a conviction. Even on many who are less than appreciative towards him? He is more deserving than many who have received the Nobel prize.
For what is peace if there is no quality of life? And what quality of life there is without the opportunity and inspiration to strife for the better, for excellence? Also, what true quality of life there is without prosperity and pride?
And he has given us all these. Many many of us.
-- Master Yun Long Zi, 23 March 2015. Miles away from Singapore.
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