#education

Sweden can be amazing! 🇸🇪

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We have things I think the whole world should embrace, like free higher education and healthcare. Students even get PAYED in benefits to study, not much but still 💵

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There is gorgeous nature, which is made easier to explore and experience thanks to laws which allows you to walk on private property as long as you are respectful. Sweden has a rich history which is reflected in the beautiful old architecture in most Swedish city centres. Many palaces and mansions can also be found in the countryside 🏰

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It's also a country where you're truly free to be who you want to be, cause of the longstanding separation between religion and state. Some of the best pastries can be found here too, from princess cakes and chocolate balls to "semlor" 🍰

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But there are times when it's not so amazing. There's been an increased amount of violent crime and substance abuse recently. In the town where I live it's apparently very easy to get a hold of dr*gs if you want to. I don't notice it in my regular life though, except for the ways my student organization tries to crack down on it. I think it very much has to do with what kinds of circles you're in. You also often hear about shootings and gang wars in the news 😨

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It may not be perfect but comparitively speaking, I still think Sweden is a great place to live. I'd be hard pressed to come up with many better alternatives 😊

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And I'll soon have my bachelor's degree in urban planning! 🎓

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This question can be interpreted several different ways and therefore, context is important. I will answer this question based upon my own personal experience. I was on a date with a young woman and during our dinner she established her personal boundaries with me by stating: "I am not interested in a long term relationship because I need to finish my college education and I must focus on myself."

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I appreciated her honestly, directness and ability to set expectations while communicating her thoughts without ambiguity. So in this situation, I thanked her for her honesty and we enjoyed our time together. It was also the last time I ever saw her. I realized that her goals and my goals were not aligned and so out of respect, I moved on with my life, as did she.

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Below is a poem, written by a friend of mine that describes this experience perfectly.

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"Candle In The Wind" - by Nico

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Our love was like a candle in the wind,
dancing to and fro.
Flickering with a meteoric uncertainty,
as it flashed briefly across the night sky.
Burning ever so brightly.
Gradually… disappearing into a distant,
but unforgettable memory.

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i can’t even express my gratitude to you David , thank you so much for such care

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I’m sorry that i haven’t answered for more than month….

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i didn’t have any desire to talk to anyone at all…. here too….
i don’t know how i feel myself right now….
i losing a most important
landmark and my secret compass

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maybe the pain went from very acute to acute….
i can’t talk about my beautiful mom….even one word like right now
tears spray from the eyes ….
recently i met an old woman and she ask me about my beautiful mom….
I’m standing…. i’m trapped … I’m trembling…. tears are suffocating….
I start crying…. i can’t say a word

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that woman
said sorry so many times ….

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one word about my beautiful mom….it’s all …. over ….

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i couldn’t stop….
but education immediately makes itself felt, I try not to put people in an awkward position….

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because the pain is became personal….sometimes people know
about your pain but they may ask why i have such beautiful but sad eyes …. how why ….
it’s about forever…. i
love my mom even more like i love myself …. everyone know about ….

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i believe that we are coming back …. and i want my beautiful mom …. in next her return to be a one from the most beautiful ….carefree….and happy in completely different part of the world…. happy….
i believe this how sometimes people found each other though time ….

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but we don’t know anything about what is there ….

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😞

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Read this answer from fellow Quoran for more clarification:

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Women are only capable of birthing one healthy child per nine(ish) month period. So having 4 men tied to one woman means only one child in nine months. Whereas 4 women tied to one man means (at maximum) 4 children in nine months. This may sound like a weak argument today, but considering the lack of medicine and the chance of child mortality then, it was important to have many many children so at least one would survive.Economics- In Islam it is a man's duty to support his entire family (whether 1 wife and 1 child, or 3 wives and 8 children). By tying 3 men to 1 woman, that means all three men areonlyresponsible for that one woman and her children. Whereas if one man is tied to 3 women he has to support all 3 and their children. This is a much better situation because it means more women and children are being taken care of.NOTE:Islam does hold that women are allowed to work and support themselves,BUTin that time in Arabia there wasn't a whole lot of work women were physically able to do. A lot of it was hard physical labor or work that required education (which women[before Islam]were not allowed to have)War- War was fairly common, especially around the time of Islam's birth. Due to this men would die in battles and leave behind widows all the time. Due to the above reason (economics and work) it was hard for widows (espically someone raising a child) to work and take care of and raise her children. At this time there was no social services assistance to people who desperately needed it, so instead you would marry them and add them to your family, thus (as state in 3) the man has the responsibility of caring for her and her children as well.Gender Ratio- Due to war, work, and the harsh climate the gender ratio was way out of wack. Today the gender ration is about 101:100 (m/f) which is great, but then the male ratio was down and the female was up. This generally isn't a problem (or it wouldn't

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Read this answer from fellow Quoran for more clarification:

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Women are only capable of birthing one healthy child per nine(ish) month period. So having 4 men tied to one woman means only one child in nine months. Whereas 4 women tied to one man means (at maximum) 4 children in nine months. This may sound like a weak argument today, but considering the lack of medicine and the chance of child mortality then, it was important to have many many children so at least one would survive.Economics- In Islam it is a man's duty to support his entire family (whether 1 wife and 1 child, or 3 wives and 8 children). By tying 3 men to 1 woman, that means all three men areonlyresponsible for that one woman and her children. Whereas if one man is tied to 3 women he has to support all 3 and their children. This is a much better situation because it means more women and children are being taken care of.NOTE:Islam does hold that women are allowed to work and support themselves,BUTin that time in Arabia there wasn't a whole lot of work women were physically able to do. A lot of it was hard physical labor or work that required education (which women[before Islam]were not allowed to have)War- War was fairly common, especially around the time of Islam's birth. Due to this men would die in battles and leave behind widows all the time. Due to the above reason (economics and work) it was hard for widows (espically someone raising a child) to work and take care of and raise her children. At this time there was no social services assistance to people who desperately needed it, so instead you would marry them and add them to your family, thus (as state in 3) the man has the responsibility of caring for her and her children as well.Gender Ratio- Due to war, work, and the harsh climate the gender ratio was way out of wack. Today the gender ration is about 101:100 (m/f) which is great, but then the male ratio was down and the female was up. This generally isn't a problem (or it wouldn't

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1- Allah has explicitly warned about the Satan as an open enemy.
Or we can say Satan is an open enemy while the nafs is an enemy within.
A threat within the domain is more dangerous than an external threat.
Hence, battle with the nafs takes greater significance over the battle with satan
Satan uses our nafs. So, imo, nafs ul ammarah is a bigger more dangerous enemy.
For Satan only taawwudh is required, and fight against nafs requires education and control.

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Both have to be done well with proper measure.

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2-Most of the time we are blindfolded by our brains. We don't even see our actions as something wrong so we choose not to act upon it. Our brain gives us an all new vision in which we don't see ourselves as someone wrong. We are still the Hero in our story.

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So before enacting upon a situation we should try to be in others shoes too, we should try to see what it's like from their outlook. We are humans , we make mistakes, knowingly and unknowingly. But we should Try to minimise them.

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So just knowing what's Good and what's Bad doesn't only affect ur situations. There's so may things going on in ones head before making a decision.

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3- It depends on definition of healthy actually.

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Without any symptoms of feeling unwell we called someone healthy. Or the one whose maintaining thier good physique is healthy in casual saying.

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But there's more to it. Generally people don't do every test of their body till the symptoms appears.

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Sometimes weakened arteries of heart which are coronary arteries will never show any signs or symptoms in overall body performance. It's like having broken pipe but still working. But when you narrow it's end to increase its pressure inside it leaks out then we get to know that pipe is out of date now. Just like that no one will have tests of artery function as they are expensive to do just for casual check up.

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So when such a person comes into extreme stress then may be it is mentally or physically heart attacks most probably happen.

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I believe peace is the complete understanding and acceptance of humans not only with others but with themselves also. Peace is both personal, something within ourselves, while also being something big out there in the world. Peace can't exist when either of them is disturbed. And I believe finding peace is the way to connect both its elements. Peace is not the absence of chaos and problems, but it is the art to stay calm, focused, and united even in the middle of those. Animals are more peaceful than humans, and they do encounter problems, hunt for food, and die. There may be problems and conflict, but the way we solve them defines how peaceful we are. Providing education and eliminating poverty, inequality, and exclusions are the areas to work on to achieve peace both within and outside. And that can't be done without a complete understanding and acceptance of ourselves and others.....

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Ahhh well, since we're in spooky season 😉

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I don't know if this counts, but it's not a bad story. So my great- something-grandfather was a really successful landowner. He went on to start the first agricultural university in the UK which is still hugely popular today, he was one of the first people to put his daughters through equal education to his sons, etc. Every woman in his house could read. His legacy has shaped my life to a certain extent, because the family lineage is still expected to look after the university and whatever.

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Anyway! At one stage, there was a really horrible fire in the barns. He was in the thick of it, trying to get it put out, but he got caught under a falling timber. The left half of his face was really horribly burned - he'd been a stalwart of the community up until that point, but he was left completely disfigured. He would only pay the wives of his workers because there was a rampant drinking problem in the area, but after that he would only pay them when it was dark and they couldn't see him. He wore a velvet tophat tipped so low that no one could see his face. Rumours ran wild that he was blind, possessed or dead.

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But no, he just didn't want his face to upset anyone. So he didn't show it in public again until the day he died.

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As many other Spaniards, I learned English despite the education system, not because of it. I absorbed as much as I could from the school, which is pretty much a decent knowledge of the English grammar, an only because I was the bookworm type of kid. Most of my peers were perfectly able to sit through 8 years of English lessons and thousands of exercises without learning much. And, as it turns out, the passive voice isn't cool anymore, none of my teachers got the memo though. So, how did I learn? Mostly books (gotta read the latest Harry Potter book NOW), TV shows, and English language forums, as you can find much more people with much more interesting things to say. Spanish online forums used to be pretty shity, as nobody bothered to write more than one line and there was so few people. I also took advantage of some oportunities to travel to English speaking places for free (twice with scholarships and three times for work). I always tried to speak with as many people as possible in my visits, as oppossed to the ancestral Spanish custom of sticking with the pack of Spaniards and limiting English comunications to McFlurry purchases at McDonalds. At first, I learned mostly through books and video games (this was in the early 90s, so no internet yet). English classes in school started in fifth grade, but at that point I had already taught myself enough to occasionally spot mistakes the teachers made. My family moved to North America when I turned 13, and my English improved even further. During my time there my test scores in English were usually close to perfect, and I had no problems keeping up with the other students. I started having English dreams around that time, too. To this day, many of my dreams are entirely in English, even if they feature friends and family who don't really speak the language. When we returned three years later, my English was more or less at the level of a native speaker. My spoken English has probably gotten a bit rusty over the past decade, since I don't really use it much these days. Everything else is as good as ever, though, if not better. I can thank the internet for that, I guess. In school from grade 5 to 10 and then continued in high school (the equivalent) to grade 12. Up until that point my English was rather mediocre. But I continued to "learn" English by watching movies and shows in that language only with German subtitles and few years after that I switched to English subtitles - also (online) gaming and browsing websites in English language. Now ~7 years after finishing school my English is much better than it used to be and I consider it to be a language I am almost fluent in. It's still nothing compared to my native language in some or most cases though.

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