Thursday, October 7, 2010, 9:18 AM
touched
with regards to the departure of Lee Kuan Yew's wife, i'm truly impressed and envy by how the 87 years old devoted husband bade goodbye to his wife with a red rose and a final kiss.
below are a few points which i'm touched by the loving couple:
- They spend more than 3 quarters of their lives together.
- His companion of 63 years have been tgt since they were law students in London.
- He was dealing with grief that "cannot be expressed in words" for his wife's death.
- They would walk around the Istana gardens in the evening and they would swim.
- His most difficult moment is at the end of each day as he sat by the bedside of his wife, who has been unable to speak or move after a major brain haemorrhage.
- She understood him when he talked to her which he did every night.
- She kept awake for him as he told her about his day's work & read her favourite poems.
- He would try and keep her company for as long as he can & expressed uncertainty of who's going first, whether she or him.
- When he kissed her on her cheek, she would told him not to come too close in case he caught her pneumonia.
- She asked the maid to take one of the peaches home for his lunch when she was given some of them in the hospital.
- She devoted herself to him and her children and would always be there when he needed her.
- He was at the centre of her life.
- He could find solace at her 89 years of her life well lived.
- Her stoic presence next to him during times of turbulence and tension in the many years of his political struggle.
Stongly agreeing with behind every successful man is a great woman and she had been the pillar of strength for her husband. If I were to be one of the fortunate girl, I would certainly hope to have a blissful marriage, happily married to a man who's worth spending a lifetime with.
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