Blood is a fluid, just like water, but they say its thicker than water, figuratively speaking it means a whole lot more than how thick or flowing it is. How thick is your own blood to your families and siblings?
A SHORT STORY
There was a young man somewhere off the coast of Eastern Africa, he was from a family of six; the parents and three siblings, two girls and a boy. They lived in the peaceful countryside until the lad left for the city for employment opportunities. After a few years in the city, his father died and he was left with his bereaved mother and three younger siblings.
He became successful a couple of more years later and forgot his family, his poor widowed mother and siblings grew weary of him, he was always giving excuses not to call or to visit them in the countryside as months turn into years. Finally, the family gave up on him, the younger ones went on their separate ways to hustle and take care of their beloved mother.
One day, the two brothers jammed in the city, the big brother, no a very successful man with a glamorous wife or girlfriend, (who cares) by his side, they met at a supermart and the little brother shun his big brother who seems to have forgotten him till that moment. Despite his big brother trying to talk to him, the younger sibling kept ignoring him and walked away.
From their sheer resemblance, everyone could tell they were brothers, even though he never made mention of his family to his sweetheart, she was wondering why the younger man refused to talk to his older sibling. The little brother finally and politely told him to "call mother" and to stop stalking him.
The other siblings had relocated their mother and changed her mobile numbers, their big brother was never able to reach her again!
MORAL!
Families come first, second and third before friends and colleagues or buddies, that was the fundamental design by default, sadly the reverse is the case in present days. People have forsaken their families in the name of love, friends, wealth and treasures, some to some brotherhood bound by blood oath and they abandoned their immediate families in abject poverty. They forgot that family blood supersede any blood oath that was taken, the blood running in the veins nullifies every other one.
On no account should wealth, property and treasure get into your head and make you forget your root and where you are from and even your friends. At the point where you are ashamed to be identified with you people because of how rich you have become or famous, then your Blood is not any thicker than water!