is blood thicker than water?

random topic that just came to my mind:

is blood thicker than water?

ok i'm not referring to it in a scientific way as jing says... rarrr YOU bish bish. =P

rather i mean... how to put it. in terms of human relationships, in terms of emotions... does that make more sense?

I mean that used to be the case, when societies were more untied and everyone could sleep with their doors open at night. i guess it was because nobody else... ok i'm not making anymore sense. or rather i'm not making the point that i want to make.

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in this age and time when families are becoming more nucleated (i hope that's the correct word), is that sentence still as true as it used to be?! I'd like to think so. yet stuff around me hasn't proven so.

it used to be the case when you'd lend loans to distant cousins because your parents told you to because they were family. now tell me would you do the same today? i think i might see a few shaking heads if i were talking to an audience. yet would you lend that same loan to a friend? if we compare relatively, i think we'd find that the thickness of blood has decreased, whereas the concentration of water is staying the same. of course as i said, its relative. who WOULD be so gullible to lend people huge amounts of money now. why can't they go to the bank. or why can't they earn some more through their own means by taking up a few more jobs. it is after all an effect of education, where everyone is more informed about such matters.

or maybe just maybe, becuase i'm at this age, my TEENS and i'm raring to be an insolent brat who can't wait to get out of the house and do stuff others haven't tried before, do things that my parents won't intervene in. all the aspiration all the nerve. so i think friends are more important somehow. they spend all your time in school with you! they mug with you they die with you during trainings in cca, they stone with you, they help you with your problems. of course there's the occassional thing where your friends pull you into a negative situation, but if both of you come out of it being better people, then isnt' it such a happy ending? do you think i'd rather put my 死党first or my cousin's eldest daughter-in-law's father first?

its kind of like the "if so and so jumps into the water who will you save first?" question.

i'm not saying that in our own nucleated family blood is less thick than it used to be. in fact it is most probably thicker. they are after all your only form of support if all else in the outisde world fails you, all the more as relationships become clearer cut in this new age.


bah. i'm not making sense. i think if this were a gp essay, there would most probably be a lot of red squiggly lines indicating that i have yet to express what i want to say and that the marker doesn't understand what i'm trying to express. As ALWAYS what my gp essays were like.

ok maybe the topic wasn't so random after all. something just jolted my mind when my mum kept ranting about how i'd do community service yet not do anything to help at home. just gets me pissed off. RAR

i've been busy busy busy is all i can say.