The Boat

     It shows a man in a boat. It is the most usual pastime in this heated summer. You see a middle-aged man in the middle of the Mediterranean.
      It is just a man floating in the sea.
    You know about teenagers and their phones. You know how they get obsessed with them and start filming everything that happens to them. They record everything. If the world ever forgets, their cameras won't.
   It's also the Kid's own horror on display here. He recorded the atrocity, but he also experienced it.
   It shows a man with a soaked, dirty shirt on under a bright orange accessory. There is nothing to see. The man is still siting.
   Of course the man in the sea is not from the Kid's family. He is a stranger who happened to be going through the same agony. He is someone who wishes they were not stranded in the middle of the Mediterranean.
    It is not just another video of a drowning. It is a drowning that was filmed by a teenager who was trying to find shelter, but he ended up watching the sea engulf people.
    The man notices the phone and waves. He smiles at the kid.
    It is a short footage. The kid had just gotten comfortable in the boat to take his phone out. The video is raw. Too raw.
   But there is a component of surprise. You keep on looking not because you don't know what's going to happen - they're in an overfilled rubber boat, of course you know what's going to happen- but because you want to see it again and view it with another perspective.
 The sea is creeping in the background, waiting for the boat to give up and capsize.
  There's something about the image, it's bright yet gloomy. The sun seems to be overshadowed by what's approaching.
  Your eyes are glued to the screen.
   Of course, had the Kid zoomed in on the boat, he would have caught the moment were the rubber just gave up and detached.
   You call your John to see the video, you want him to sympathize with the refugees. You've seen this video so many times. It rolls on and on in your head by itself. But you keep watching. You want to see the moment when the boat capsizes and all 60 people huddled on there scatter into the water.
Take this  simulation to better understand a refugee's journey.