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LIFESTYLE‘I started a new way of thinking after the Oct 14 event. That was the first time I read Chit Phumisak’s political poems. It inspired me to think in ways I’d never thought before’“copying and pasting” directly from websites!However, being a teacher is in my spirit. Every time my friends in writers’ circles hold a writers’ camp for young writers, I always help them as a member of the teaching staff.Of three sisters, you said you were the straightforward one. What about the other two?The second one is cheerful. She loves joking. The youngest one is similar to me. She is very direct, especially when she gets angry. Our father taught us to be frank. He taught us to see through people’s tricks.Did you become interested in poetry because of your father?44 Elite+Yes, when he drank a little whisky, he loved reciting poems out loud – his works and the canonical works of Sunthorn Phu, Thailand’s best known poet who lived in the early Rattanakosin period. Remembering the works of Sunthorn Phu helped me get good grades while studying at Triam Udom Suksa School in Bangkok. I’ m proud of my father. Although he was drunk, he helped me get good grades. I inherited my spirit of writing from my father.What were your thoughts during the October political events from Oct 14, 1973, to Oct 6, 1976?I started a new way of thinking after the Oct 14 event. That was the first time I read Chit Phumisak’spolitical poems. I read the phrase “Every time you eat rice, always remember, you eat my sweat that keeps you alive.” It shocked me. I had never seen a poem like this before. It was so different from the sweet poems I knew. It inspired me to think in a way I’d never thought before. The same feeling also happened when I read Pee-sart, a novel by the late author Sanee Saowapong.The October events changed the way I thought. I thought more critically and started writing for the good of society. Unfortunately, the change came immediately and quickly. Without realizing it, many good books in different genres from my shelf were discarded, even the Pocket Book series “Fueng Nakhon”