The unexpected is a natural consequence of life. We live unaware of what lies ahead, and ignorance of danger is always tucked away in our back pocket.
Everyone who lives on this planet carries some degree of ignorance of danger. Wherever they are and whatever they do, in some small corner of their mind that ignorance is hiding.
In the Kyrenia ferry disaster, it appears that ignorance of danger among the captains and those responsible for the catamaran was allowed to run wild.
The vessel turned into an upside-down coffin, drowning eight people and causing twice as many to disappear.
A tragedy without mercy.
When human dignity sinks and drowns, no one has the right to use the occasion to express whatever resentments they carry within their own inner world.
I, too, read the condemnations and hateful comments because the victims were Turks.
Combined with the fact that the tragedy occurred in occupied Kyrenia, some people reacted as though they had been waiting years for such an event in order to take emotional revenge for the ongoing occupation of Cyprus.
Some of them rose up to express satisfaction at a human tragedy in the sea across from us.
I regard them as human beings by accident. Not even whatever notion of "Greekness" they may claim can save them from their inability to behave in a more mature way.
And, to state what I truly believe, these social media "condemners" are nothing more than a small minority among Cypriot citizens as a whole.
Only those who cannot imagine themselves sinking beneath the sea behave in such an emotional manner.
Only those who cannot picture themselves being pulled down into the depths, taking human souls with them, souls who happened to find themselves at the point where the ignorance of danger of those responsible for their safety became fatal.
The Cyprus problem has nothing to do with the catamaran disaster.
We, however, have a direct relationship with it, as individuals, as a society and, of course, as victims of a political and military distortion that does not appear likely to be remedied any time soon.
After all, life pays no attention to politics or geopolitical circumstances.
Even less so to justice.
Expressing sorrow and sympathy for the victims of this tragedy has nothing to do with flags and drums.
Tomorrow, perhaps even today, you may find yourself in the place of the person sinking beneath the water with the fear of death in their eyes.
Human beings, regardless of race or ethnicity, often fail to comprehend the scale of human existential tragedy.
For that reason, let us understand, as much as we can, that death does not choose according to our own petty criteria.
It leaves us with only one choice: to decide what kind of people we are, now and always.
I did not, of course, expect the occupation regime to accept the assistance offered by the Republic of Cyprus.
There, too, live people who are narrow-minded and opportunistic.
So do not expect a solution to the Cyprus problem.
Only death distributes its omnipotence freely.
We have only one destiny: to be as compassionate as we can and not become emotional wrecks.
