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what causes family business to break up?

i remember talking to krizna in college and telling her that i never want to be part of the cycle. that particular one that causes greed and jealousy to thrive. i wanted a simple life by the beach, open up a small deli slash studio and just be content with the routines and occasional surprises that head my way. oh how college thoughts get the best of us. and so i let go of my dream life and found another one. one that was more realistic, one that involved my family. you see i never imagined my family to be a part of my life when i was in college. maybe i had too much of them growing up. hahaha

and so i joined the family business not knowing exactly why previous generations weren't able to make it. my family tree is huge, it's like one of those rainforest trees that make humans seem like antsss. in both my mom and dad side, there are relatives that i dont know the names of. there was one time in school where a classmate came up to me and told me that we were related! and true enough, we were. that's a typical HUGE chinese family for you.

ok what i'm about to say are not facts, more of hearsay. the shipping business was started by my great grandfather i think. and the next generation (my grandfather's) tore it apart. each of them started their own shipping thing and before you know it, the next generation (my father's) tore it apart. and now it's with our generation. will we continue this what-seems-like-a-never-ending-cycle or are we the turning point? maybe it wont happen to us or maybe it is just inevitable. why? mainly because people are naturally greedy. siblings envy each other. parents protect their own over that of their siblings. but can it change? i have no other choice but to believe and hope that it can.

money is important. we need it to survive. but we don't need so much of it that we compromise the relationships we have with our family. i feel relationships should be above everything else. maybe i'm living in a dream once again, like i was in college. but i hope and pray that years from now, if my thoughts have changed, that this post will pull be back to the ground.

money is just money. in the end, it's not worth having it all when there's no one there to spend it with.