As with many people who marry young, Dodong has had numerous regrets about his marriage. One's youth is supposed to be happy and carefree, a time of gaiety and laughter. But not Dodong's. Because he got married at such a young age and had so many children, his youth has been full of cares and worries. Old before his time, Dodong wonders what happened to his youth.

One night, Dodong wakes up and stands outside in the moonlight. He wants to know why life doesn't fulfill all the dreams of youth:

Why must it be so? Why one was forsaken ... after Love.

Dodong hopes for an answer to his question. But no answer comes. And so he's left to stand there in the moonlight feeling utterly humiliated. At the same time, Dodong thinks that perhaps the question was not to be answered. Some questions are like that, and this could well be another one of them.

And yet, Dodong is adamant that there must be an answer if youth is to be youth, a time of one's life that is "dreamfully sweet." Dodong clearly has an idealized notion of what youth should be like. And he's applied that notion to his own life, which is about as far from "dreamfully sweet" as it's possible to get. Given the huge gap between the ideal and reality, it's no wonder that he demands to know why life doesn't fulfill the dreams of youth.