God grew tired of us

So I watched the most incredible movie the other day, it's called "God grew tired of us" I've included the trailer so watch it!. First I will have to give you a little background on the story for you to understand. In Sudan there was a mass genocide of black christians by northern muslims in the late 1980s (specifically of men and boys so as to eradicate their existence). However, there was a large group of young boys who fled into the forest and embarked on a 5 year exodus to Kenya so as to survive, these young boys became known as "the lost boys". This movie shows these lost boys 15 years later still living in the same refugee camp, never having left. It follows the story of a handful of them who were adopted into the US so as to better their life. I was shocked. These men had never even flipped a light switch before in their life. They had to learn everything that we as a culture take for granted at the age of 20+. They struggled at first trying to adapt to "normal" life. It really just made me think. How many times do you see a little kid who can barely even talk pick up your iPhone, open it, and look for the game applications? These men couldn't even comprehend the idea of potato chips in a bag. They had been stuck in their situation for years because they simply couldn't go anywhere else. The Kenyan government only had them in the refugee camp without access to anything, they couldn't go home to Sudan for risk of being killed immediately, they had no choice but to stay. The first thing that really came to my mind was, "what is really happening in this world right now?" This was the early 2000s when they filmed the documentary. It's recent. I always thought of these things of happening in the past, but no, it's happening today. The refugee camp in Kenya is still there, nothing has changed and there are over 150,000 people living there that have not been so fortunate as the handful in the documentary to leave. Watching this documentary it made me think, there are real issues out there, the issues of the world extend beyond history class and our silently hidden in our everyday reality. It's time we go looking for them.