To certain people, the answer is NO… where to certain people is YES… Human being is a very complicated creature. To certain degree of people, it doesn’t mean anything regardless it is blood related or not, their reaction is being ignorant and defiant on what happened to the people around them.
On the other hand, some people will give a hand to others regardless it is blood related or not as long as a person needs help. These people are the one who care, love, bonds, and regard family values very high and important.
It is cruel to realize that even if you are blood related, it is not necessary for a man to care about a person in the family member. Despite saying when the person is not your family member. These cases do revolve around us in reality where a man does not even bother or care on ones even though it is his closest family member. You might consider this group of people is being described as non-filial-piety category. The ones who help will be outsiders whom have the heart of philanthropist.
When a family member is walking through a death bed session, how could a human being become so ignorant and nasty especially when it is your closest family member? It is very cruel to encounter this experience. In which, I despise those people who don’t even know how to respect. In fact, I should say I pity them.
I personally believe, a man will receive retribution on what he did as life revolves around the circle. The same thing of what you have done, your next generation will learn and will do the same thing back to you. As Chinese says,” You will taste the chili is hot when you eat it”. Nevertheless, the worst is you are indirectly teaching the next generation what to do when similar problem applies. Your next gen will accept as it is a right thing to do.
Till today, I still don't understand how someone could be so mean to the person who has the closest relation/bond with you, who brought you up, and worries about you on 24/7 as nobody's biz. Parents who protect and defend on you no matters what happened. Most importantly, the ones who will never ever give you up and abandon you even the whole world does and always forgive you. Once you grow up, you practically forgot about this, especially when you get married.
As Chinese, ones do value priority of family especially when majority are descendants of Confucian beliefs. Ones are obliged to take care of your parents. Even though one was not, this is just a common sense for each of us to do so since our parents are the ones who brought us to the world, without them, we could not have what we achieved today.
The most despicable is if they are parents yourself. Don’t they ever think of what if their kids apply the same practice to them? Won’t they feel hurt?
I would say all parents in the families do believe their kids will never do wrong deeds and abandon the families. Should I say this is a wrong belief? Maybe 'living in a denial' will best describe.
In my point of view, it is already a common sense for us to give a hand to those who need; when it comes to your family whom has a blood related to you, it is more you should do so. To me, when an elderly is alive, you don’t even bother to care or pamper them as what they used to do to you. But, only to take action once they died and to show that you are filial children. Those are all useless; it is like acting a show.
My advice is to cherish what revolves around you now. Life is not predicted, you might not be able to do what you want in the next step. Live at fullness with no regret in future when you flashback.
Conclusively, I would say that blood related does matter, as the Chinese says, “To acknowledge the source of the water you drink”.
