The Orphanage by the Lake

by Daniel G. Miller

But the world tends to take our hopes and dreams and steadily beat them down until they become something else entirely.

I’m flailing, never knowing what to wear, what to say, how to act. And even when I make the right choices, I feel like an impostor just waiting to be exposed.

‘To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.’