According to Thai culture, suffering exist because of your bad karma from past lives or past events. Sometimes it may even seem unfair that your past life is now making your present miserable. Still, this ideology is widely accepted and is taken as a way of life, maybe even as an excuse to avoid working hard. I believe that suffering exists simply because one is not trying hard enough to get out of it.
A great example of a family that tries hard, but simply not hard enough is Boonma’s family. It is true that he tries his best to work, but he is also causing his own suffering by having too many children from the start. He claims that there is no way out to his suffering, and that is extremely true because he dug his own grave by bearing too many burdens. A great comparison could be between Boonma’s family and my family. Even though surrounded by ample amounts of estates and revenue, my parents decided to have only two children in order to give them both the best possible life style. However, Boonma decides to have up to three children even though he couldn’t even afford one.
Korbjiti treats these misfortunes and sufferings in his life as the super natural’s fault. Instead of blaming Boonma for digging his own grave, he claims that the gods and karma from the past life simply hates him and is here to make him pay. Of course to some certain limit it can make sense, but one shall not put his whole life blaming on something he/she can never prove.
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