P.Morning - Did you forget your phone number when you were in another country?

Chapter (1)

I don't want to continue my studies. My teacher treated me unfairly, thinking that if I don't get a certificate from him, I will never be a good person for the rest of my life. Why should I stay in this school? I have just passed the 7th grade and read many English novels, so my friends say that I can read at least 10th or 11th grade. My parents want me to become a salaried official. Now I study from 10 am to 4 pm. If I continue to study until the end, I don't know how many thousand more baht I will spend. After studying, I have to spend a lot of money and time, and I don't want to do a clerical job where I have to start work at 9 am and work until 5 pm.

Writing is not a job. Life in this world is short, so it is the most noble thing to do your own work to earn money and keep your body and mind at peace. Those who work as wage laborers are like selling both their fortune and their intelligence to others for a meager salary. When they see writers walking around in modest clothes, they think that writing is very noble. But they do not think about how much suffering they suffer under the discrimination of the castes in the workplace.

The knowledge you learn in school is just a part of people's reputation. It is not a career. It is like the saying "One career, one education." You should seek education. My parents will not allow me. They only plan to make me do some kind of low-level work. I don't want to go home. I don't want these books. If I go to a used book shop in the night market and sell them, I will get a good price. The government can't feed every BA. I have seen that BAs are suffering because they can't find work. I don't want to study to get a BA, which is not even like the fortune teller on the pagoda hill. If you take a job like a dog, the time when BAs will be swarming will come soon and you will be stuck. You need to earn money early, give charity early, and get married. Thinking about how to plan and where to go, Maung Ba Saw went to a bookstore in Kalakatta Market after school. He sold books, a few coins, and a diamond ring, which amounted to more than 200 baht, and he put it in his bag so that it wouldn't get lost. Then he went to the railway station to find a train to take to show the good path to the good people and the gods.

So, in a town called Kintaw in the upper Chindwin region, a young man came to live in the house of a tea merchant named U Kan Gyi.