Welcome to this issue of European Surgery, which orchestrates a broad spectrum of general surgery related themes, topics and aims. Beauty fosters motivation. The authors, the reviewers, the Editors and the publisher are to be thanked for their support to bring these works to the attention of the readers. Reading bridges the existence. As such the readers become part of what is written, said and told. What is it, that is written, said and told? The answer is not blowing in the wind, the answer is the wind and it goes like this: what is written, said and told is the myth of man, the myth of nature, the myth of mankind and any kind and it may be taken down to the essence of all our perceptions. The essence of all our per