Unreasonable Older Brother

In Malay language, the older sibling in a family is respectfully addressed as 'abang' and the younger one is 'adik.  This is how it begins when abang and adik were once one big happy family.  Both brothers have grown up and adik decided to have his own family.  They went separate ways.  Adik settled for a smaller piece of the pie while his abang has the rest.  Among siblings and understandably too, they are always some arguments but each time, adik gave in because he advocates 'prosper-thy-neighbour' policy.  For the longest time, adik still has to depend on his abang's vast natural resources for some essentials to survive.  From time-to-time, wherever abang is not happy (or jealous with the rapid rise of adik's fortune), he will threaten to cut the essential supply.  Fortunately, this has remained a verbal threat which did not escalate to something catastrophic.  

On the surface, abang and adik still remain very cordial to each other but recent development seems to suggest otherwise when the last patriarch in abang's family was forced out by one sickening old patriarch.  This old patriarch has never been nice to adik when he was in-charge of the household and with his return, he brought with him old baggage.  

While abang family under that old (new) patriarch has yet to fully settle down with their own domestic issues, he decided to up the ante on his adik.  This time, he is playing with fire.  For no rhyme or reason, he decided to park some of this toys at adik's place.  Adik has been exercising much restraint by asking his abang to remove his toys.  However, abang does not seem to relent.  This time is toys but one cannot discount abang putting real weapons next to test the patience of his adik.  Adik may have a smaller household but when it is too much to handle, adik may be forced to respond and consequences for both sides can be severe.  This is not the end of the story yet.  The stand-off still continues.  The stakes are high for both sides and adik is still urging his abang to come to the table for an amicable settlement.  If common sense still prevails, it is hoped abang will not push his adik to the point of no return.  Not withstanding, I still see light at the end of the horizon.  

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