Tattoo - About the psychology of love and women

"Even in his forties, men are still active. They are modern. Women are already less knowledgeable and have not caught up with men. So men want to take care of a modern woman who is about 20 years younger than them. Because only women of that age are as modern as they are."

"The girl also became comfortable with the older man's behavior. And then the marital troubles started. I wanted to write that story because I didn't dare," Than Swe said with a laugh.

"Why, how did this idea come about?"

“I saw it in person, sir, because if I wrote this novel, I was afraid that Ma Than Sein would publish it,” he said, laughing again.

"Well....... If you write, write carefully. It's more important than being published at home. You'll have to work hard. Otherwise, the reader won't understand. The man will be like a horse's back."

"Speak, teacher, with words of love."

Than Swe begged me to continue talking.

"I know a little about meaningful love. I'll tell you a little about meaningless love. Meaningless love is easy. One loves another. Why do they love? Not because of anything. They love love. They don't expect anything. Not because of anything. Love is inside them.

"If you ask me when, where, and why I'm in a relationship, I'll just shake my head and say I don't know. So what do you want to do? True love doesn't come from nurturing. Can you make the desire to eat or the desire to sleep work? Eating without wanting to eat is different from sleeping without wanting to sleep."

“A Western realist says that love is born out of experience. Is that true, sir?”

“It is true that love is based on material things. But there is a difference between love and desire. When the mind is fixed on a material thing and one wants to possess it, that is desire. Desire is asking for something. Love is the opposite. It does not ask for something, it gives something.

“For example... if a man loves a woman, the lover fulfills all the needs of the beloved. He does not ask for anything in return. If she wants, he does not give her. He only tries to get her. That is why I said, right? There is a difference between liking and love. Most people get married based on liking. Liking is meaningful love. True love is meaningless love.”

"Tell me a little bit about how love arises, sir."

"Love is always hidden inside. You don't know it until you know it. But sometimes, when something happens, that love comes out. Don't think that love just comes like a storm. You should also remember that it has been hidden inside for a long time.

“So, have you read Jane Hilton’s novel We Are Not Alone? Have you seen the movie? It was shown in Yangon when I was a kid before the war.

"I'll tell you a brief summary of the story. In a small town in England, there was a doctor.

“He has a wife who is always sick and an illegitimate son.

"The doctor is very ordinary. His wife is also very ordinary, and she is a hot-tempered woman from the beginning. But the doctor is quite calm. They have a German girl as a housekeeper in their house."

“When the First World War broke out, people surrounded the Germans in England and threw stones at them. They also surrounded the doctor’s house, demanding that the German girl be released. The doctor had hidden the girl. When the crowd had stopped, he sneaked her out through the back door, pedaled his bicycle, and made the girl sit on the back, and they rode a short distance to the station.

"While people were busy, the boy reached for the candy jar and the bottle broke. So he poured the pills from a bottle on the shelf into a bottle nearby, put the candy in the empty bottle, and left it untouched."

“The old woman took the pill from the bottle she usually took and ate it. She took the poison pill and died. She was about to run away to the station with the German girl, so the old woman who was the garbage collector at home reported it to the police. The doctor confessed that he had poisoned his wife and then run away with the German girl.”

"During the investigation, the prosecutor asked the doctor, 'You