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.

People think that we’re defined by the big moments in our lives: births, deaths, successes, and failures. But I think the little moments matter more because those are the moments that shape your self-perception and who you want to become.

Fear is like a cancer—it starts with an actual moment but then multiplies and gains hold of you until it’s bending your experience of everything around you.

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