"there is no time to be troublesome these days"(Ishmael 92)

When Ishmael Beah says," There is no time to be troublesome these days ", he is talking about all the kids that don't get time to be kids. I think that the quote is saying that because of the war going on in Sierra Leone the kids are no longer able to go out and enjoy there youth by playing sports or hanging with there friends. Ishmael Beah is saying that because of all the fighting going on kids are not able to have peace and quiet. The kids are all to busy trying to escape the war and fighting by running away to different towns. When the kids decide to stop running they are either enlisted into the army or into the rebels army. When the kids said no to these to factions they were shot. What this quote says to me is that i am lucky to live in America and not a country filled with civil wars. This quote tells me that i am lucky to grow up where i do not have to witness massacres every day and i also don't have to risk being shot will running from the shooting.