Is “Blood is thicker than water” always the case?

Being inextricably embedded in the old school thought of blood is thicker than water, one risks making grave mistakes in their life. Total adherence to the saying “blood is thicker than water” in carrying out daily life activities is potential to cause divisions and acrimony within families and communities.

When a nuclear family member of such believers is in the wrong, they see them as right and become supportive of them. This is because of their warped mentality of always seeing and believing in blood is thicker than water.

However, deep thinkers and wise people will in any day any time prefer a clean water to a disease-contaminated sticky blood.

Until this point, I have been talking in proverbs to the strict adherents to the adage, “blood is thicker than water”.

How do you reconcile “blood is thicker than water” with “a friend in need is a friend indeed”. Is the latter not more powerful to helping people and society prosper than the first one that borders on favouritism, nepotism and gives credence to the Ghanaian unfortunate acceptance of “whom you know” in awarding positions and jobs without any consideration for meritocracy in such circumstances?

Man proposes and God disposes. A section of one's extended family members who were openly told to their face to be poor hence eyesore undesirables, have now taken the lead in many good things, education, and wealth.

Now, those that saw them as good-for-nothing lots in the family have become jealous of them and are soiling their reputation. Instead of drawing near to them, regretting for their false belief about them in case they will have pity on them, lift them out of their manifold problems, they have still chosen to intensify their disregard for them, accusing them of theft of gold.

How can people be that wicked, knowingly propagating falsehoods about a section of their own extended family members?

This level of obviously expressed bitterness, malevolence and malignity is uncalled-for. Why this “aho3yaa”, thus, “skin pain”, as many an Akan person will say?

The more they throw the dirt on them, the quicker it falls off. This is because those being falsely accused are as white and clean as snow.

They are tarnishing the reputation of the most learned member of the family from the side they see as “water” but not blood. They are accusing him of profiteering from a stolen gold to reach the successful level at which he finds himself today. What a load of nonsense!

This is the extent that the lowlife and lazy gits in the family can go to discredit the hard work of the most successful academic within their entire family.

Where at all from this level of malevolence toward those successful members of that section of the family once deemed as bunch of downcast individuals?

Are they not hated out of envy, jealousy, and pure evil-mindedness? Yes, they are.

To the haters, please go to those that you look down upon in sorrow and humility, and you will be pardoned for your ill-conceptions about them.

Yes, blood is thicker than water, but its benefits are limited.

I end by quoting the gospel to buttress my contention that some people need guidance to navigate the complex and hidden obstacles in life.

Proverbs 6:6-11
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—

11 and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

Rockson Adofo