‘So much I love his heart. But I perceive
Men must learn now with pity to dispense;
For policy sits above conscience’
Timon of Athens, Act III; Scene II
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‘So much I love his heart. But I perceive
Men must learn now with pity to dispense;
For policy sits above conscience’
Timon of Athens, Act III; Scene II
Last July, something life-changing happened to me: my sister got a schnauzer. You’d think it wouldn’t affect me that much, since it’s not my dog, but no; I’d been waiting for that schnauzer quite as much as she had.
I was definitely disheartened after years of trying to get an internship with my CV, which lacked Finnish studies and relevant job experience. To finally see all the hard work pay off feels great!
Raw and unpredictable nature, melancholy, humble attitude, and ‘sisu’ – what could be more Finnish? The Helsinki City Theatre offers the celebrating people of the 100-year-old Finland a beautiful musical story that has already warmed our hearts in the form of a TV series, and is based on novels written by Anni Blomqvist: Myrskyluodon Maija.
Empathy is a personal trait that is inert to all humans, yet taking a look at two modern European democracies we can see that empathy is also a societal norm that manifests itself in very different ways between cultures.
Representations of mental illness open a window into a different world view. A person’s mental illness becomes a sort of shadow life only made public in the “right” spheres.. Mental illness is a topic richly covered in Finnish independent comics.