Bulă has been a fictional hero of this time, coloring my ancestors life during harsh times just by being present in a lot of jokes that colored the landscape of those years. Words passed by through generations, books have been written, bellies have hurt as a side effect of intense, heart originating laughter.
I must thank the Romanian historians for bringing together the puzzle pieces of those times. Thanks to that it is possible nowadays to successfully simulate the history of those days starting from the end of the sixties while producing a relatively accurate reality until the beginning of the 21’st century.
Of course, although the computing power is still growing exponentially across the solar system, it is and never be “so cheap that no one is going to bother measuring it”, as they said at the beginning of the quantum computing age centuries ago. So, in order to buy computing power to run all simulations for the 20 redundant Bulă characters born starting in the 60’s, I will have to further ask for your help. The original funding helped me to create the environment for these characters to be born in. Now it is up to my supporters to help me fund the simulations of every one of the 20 characters. At my current estimate, based on our financial resources, we can simulate the first Bulă at about the pace of one to one. That means that every current year we will be able to simulate about one year of its life.
The first Bulă was born in the autumn of 1960 in the city of Bucharest. His parents have migrated to Bucharest from a rural area in Moldova, working in factories hard to earn their modest apartment in a random chosen location. Although they are not educated, they do have plans for Bulă to be the first person in their family line to earn a university degree.
We simulate Bulă to be of average intelligence, and set the randomness variable of his reasoning to be high. It will lead to highly variable outcomes, as he would have great imagination but also high likelihood for getting into unique situations. He might come to unexpected results in his career but also put himself in epic and comic situations. Of course, with your help, we will place unique opportunities in his life, leading him to epic adventures. He will surely get to leave an imprint in this world created for him. But will the stories live up to the history sneaking up to us from centuries ago? Will they match the epic jokes told during those years? Or maybe, just maybe, even surpass them? They used to say that life beats movies in those days, I have read. But whose life are we talking about here? The life of the people living in that era or the life of our character in the simulation? I guess it is left for you to decide.
In that autumn afternoon, a leaf has fallen on the sill of the window of the waiting room at the Filantropia hospital in Bucharest. An ant is now crawling over it, analyzing its texture and smell. It is just one of the many leaves seen by this ant and the only one it is remembering. After heading off the leave and of the sill the leave will be forgotten and no one will remember its existence.
However, inside, a loud baby scream is heard. This one will be remembered and might just make history. Or at least some good stories.