Before you can start something, you have to make a decision.
In other words, immediately before what you do, there is actually a decision that has already been made.
Your brain automatically carries out some activities that have become habitual; even if you think you haven’t made a decision, there is resolve in that too…
Indecision is the greatest curse in the world.
Being unable to make a decision, not knowing what to do, struggling with conflicting options—it’s a serious mess.
Although being unable to make a decision may seem like a personal matter, others are affected by it too; they suffer…
After these perhaps futile lines about making decisions, let’s brainstorm about our country’s decisiveness, and let our topic be a solution… In the meantime, judge at the end of the article whether the words above are futile…
How a solution is understood in our country: 1\. Perspective: A new, united Cyprus to be reached as a result of negotiations with the Greek Cypriots.
2\. Perspective: The current situation is the solution. The problem was resolved in 1974.
3\. Perspective: The solution is the recognition of the TRNC.
4\. Perspective: Is there a problem?
(By the way, the last perspective is my favorite. It’s the classic “I couldn’t care less if the world went up in flames!” and “Ignorance is bliss, brother” attitude. Anyway…)
Given the wide variety of ways a solution is understood in our country, it is perfectly natural for people with other perspectives to criticize the President’s negotiating process for a united Cyprus under a federal framework.
Because what we’re experiencing these days is actually related to this…
But there is something very strange here, in my view: If we consider that the Cyprus problem began 50 years ago, it is very difficult to understand why we Turks still haven’t come together on common ground…
The problem belongs to all of us, but don’t you think having such different perspectives prevents us from making a decision about it?
We just can’t get anywhere.
We just can’t make a decision.
Unfortunately, this situation shows that instead of understanding and listening to one another and reasoning together, we have spent all these years blaming one another: You’re on the Greek Cypriot side.
You’re on Turkey’s side.
We just can’t escape this trap.
Our minds are full of barriers; we don’t see or hear one another…
Our prejudices have dulled our ability to reason and come to control us.
And the most painful part is that we are entering a new process burdened by the world’s greatest curse: our indecision.
There is no doubt that our indecision about how the Cyprus problem should be resolved will set us against one another in the period ahead. So, when we can see this so clearly today, why don’t we start resolving this problem now?
Or is the plan of our politicians, who have been feeding off this for years, to profit from this indecision in the period ahead as well?
Isn’t this people deserving of pity?
Hope to see you on Tuesday…
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