The Conditions of Will

by Jessa Hastings

there’s always that niggle, sometimes conscious but most often not—that the people who made you, the ones who created you, your own flesh and blood, the ones who are genetically wired to want you—they didn’t want me.

You can tell yourself you don’t even really want to be wanted by people like them anyway, but it isn’t true because the same way parents are supposed to want their kids, kids have a genetic predisposition to want to be wanted by them.