The Unwated Ones

     While I was in the womb the drama played out this way. My father gave my mother money to abort me. She thought about it, but was raised under morality, so she decided to keep both the money and me. My father saw her swollen womb later and told her that I was not his. Unfortunately this is not an unusual story, there are millions of us. We are the unwanted ones. We act out the fact that we are on our own in different ways. Some of us decide that we are less valuable because we were abandoned and resort to deviance. Others try to over-compensate by achieving great things to show the world that we are worthy of acceptance. A small number of us embrace the reality that we had nothing to do with our parent’s decision making. So the personal baggage is not ours to carry.