Hi, thank you for reading. My name is Daniel D. Marquez and I am the owner of this journal. I am currently 20 years old, I live in Quezon City, and I am the youngest of one sibling. I have a bubbly, happy, and talkative type of personality. But the irony is, I am usually keeping that to myself until I personally know the person. The reason for that is because I am introverted and it always makes me shy to socialize. Nevertheless, I always make sure that I presented myself well and make the best impression among all of my first meet-ups.

You can learn more about me by understanding my philosophy in life and that is; "Money is the root of all evil". It is rest assured that I will never lie and deceive for money because if I let myself be tempted with any amount, I might as well let myself be tempted with anything else, for the love of money is the root of all evil.

One of the best lessons that life has taught me is understanding the importance and value of self-improvement and why we must be consistent with the effort that we put in. We must set a reasonable standard for our goal and try to fulfill it little by little, day by day. With this, we are encouraging ourselves to be productive, no matter how small or big it is, for as long as there is an improvement. 

November 17, 2021

For the past few days, something has changed in my lifestyle. I can't exactly tell what is going on because I have no connection with a professional, but the change was enough for me to notice and make me wonder about the explanation behind it. For some reason, I am always feeling really heavy in the head every morning. No matter how long I sleep, I still experience low energy; it is as if I have fatigue. I also can't really construct sentences properly anymore as I used to. Whenever I am writing, I always find myself thinking about the words that I will use next, and it would take me some time to finish it. This is very unusual to me because I was once a journalist for 4 years and writing comes naturally to me.

Maybe what I am currently experiencing is the long-term psychological effect of COVID-19 as I already stated in my early journals, my family had contracted the virus. But I can't really tell for sure because it happened for a long time already, so why would it manifest just now, right?