& considering my sickness, i've got had a few genuine demanding situations. I understand the rigorous succession of conditions. I trespassed around the borders of my former existence; I crossed the seas, left towns in the back of me, the process rivers or plunged into the wilderness, continually making my method towards different towns; I affronted demise& I allowed different males to the touch my physique; I met women and men and listened to their tales; I stirred controversy and passions; and all that led me the place? to appreciate that to reside is to be marked, to determine lifestyles within the current annoying. To reside is to alter, to obtain the phrases of a narrative and this is often the single get together, we, mortals relatively recognize. The phrases of a narrative. nonetheless doubting&Deep into that darkness peering, lengthy I stood there, thinking about, fearing, doubting, dreaming goals no mortal ever dared to dream earlier than. (Edgar Allan Poe) Ondines tale is devoted to all these women and men i'm going to by no means meet in individual, and whose lives collapsed on a stunning day, condemned to an incurable ailment. it's my wish that Ondines tale may be like a ray of light, a delightful interlude, of their day-by-day strive against. And once they believe depressed, defeated and beaten by means of their destiny, i want to remind them that, for as low as we all know with certitude, for prosperous or terrible, for fit or unwell, for previous or more youthful, for we all, ultimately, on the finish of our trip in the course of the house known as existence, there it really is, majestic in its implacable serenity, silently anticipating& the go out. The Author