Horse’s mind sickness scared me the most, with his white eyes that seemed without an iris, searching like in a coma through the mountains of garbage of Bucharest’s city landfill. None of us ever talked to him after he left the orphanage. Somehow he ended up there, he lives in the garbage dump now. For some, the Garbage Mountains are hypnotic, it drives them into a dependence of sub- existence and there is always more new garbage coming from the city. I’ve been to that wasteland, I felt the decrepit smell that you will eventually get used to, and heard the call of the Garbage Mountains calling soulless humans looking to find their luck. The first time you will get to the mountains, you will find something, just to drag you deeper and deeper into the thrills of waste findings and before you know it you will become a “Searcher”. There are stories among the Searchers of gold and money found in garbage bags. The Searchers hike silently among each other looking for something that will save them from their sub-existence. They don’t see one another anymore but they search from dawn until dusk. They find their food and water in the mountains too. A half-eaten sandwich or an almost empty water bottle is all they need to survive for another day. “Horse found an engagement ring or this is what other searchers say in that garbage” I remember Crazy told me once. “It was an engagement ring! I was there with him when he found it in this big bag with a wedding dress and other bridal stuff,” Vlad jumped into the conversation. From the book Gods Buried Children by Daniel Farcas available on Amazon.
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