High Standard of Living results to complacency on the issues that matter

I keep writing on this blog from time to time, but I have no idea if anyone ever reads what I write. I guess by doing this I can tell myself that I am doing something as opposed to doing nothing about the Cyprus issue. Truth be said I know I am kidding myself. I wish real altrouism existed. I wish I was a real altrouist. Even though it might appear that this is the case in reality I know that deep inside me there is this voice that pushes me to write for differentiation and recognition. A seemingly wise man once said: "just do the right thing even if it is for selfish reasons - be as selfish as you want as long as you help others".

My trigger to write today is a question about the impact of complacency. Most of us have a fairly good idea of what is right and wrong. In a small community like Cyprus one would expect that common sense applies. In other words most people will agree that if someone takes something from someone else by force the right thing to do is to give it back. Having said that one must accept that the cliche : "it is not all black and white there is always a large grey area in between" is not far from the truth.

Where am I going with this? Most Greek Cypriots have always been better off than most Turkish Cypriots for one reason or another. Maybe this is why the invasion had to happen from the Turkish point of view: to fix the perceived inequality issue (see Palestinian-Israely issue). If you are healthy, have a family, a house, a good job, you have more money than you can spend why would you worry about things like equality, freedom, poverty, environment, politics etc. Let someone else worry about those. Let the politicians deal with this, it is their job and they are getting paid for it.

Is it only me or have our politicians done a lousy job up to now in "trying to solve the Cyprus problem"?

I am sidetracking here but there seem to be 2 problematic issues:
a) the notion everything is going so well why create a headache by re-uniting Cyprus? A divided Cyprus is the solution of the Cyprus problem....say the rich and complacent Greek Cypriots.
b) our politicians are whether incapable of grasping the issue and finding a way through diplomacy to re-unite the island or they are so much consumed by their beliefs about the Hellenic past, what is fair and what not, what history will say about THEM and forget that their job is to serve the best interest of the Cypriots - not just the Greek Cypriots.

We might not want to forget (i.e. Den Xechno) but we all (both sides) need to forgive in order to move on. Look at the blacks in South Africa. Take a closer look on how Mandela dealed with the change. A great lesson to learn from this great man.

I will leave you today with this question: Is really the only way to get us Greek Cypriots interested in the greater good of the society to take away our material riches from us? What will it take for each and everyone of us to genuinely forgive, seek peace, freedom, equality (and I do not mean socialism) and DO SOMETHING about the current situation on our beloved little island of Love!