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.

Games have proven to have plenty of positive effects on people. But for some reason, there is still a stigma going around in the gaming industry. Parents would often give negative feedback on games and blame the bad behavior of their children on games without investigating what's really causing it.

November 30, 2021

Ever since I was young, my parents would always tell me how much important education was. I never really fully understand what they meant before but I noticed how much they feel happy whenever I get good grades. Because of that, I unknowingly forced myself to strive harder in school to gain high grades and make my parents proud. This had resulted to negatively impact my life because I lost the purpose of education. The reason why I'm striving is that I want to make my parents happy without thinking about the real-life lesson, experience, and purpose of the importance of education.

It had also affected my day-to-day life as well because all I knew before was that the reason why I am alive is that I need to study and get good grades, thus losing my social interactive skills, and it prevented me to develop my interpersonal relationships.

I became grade conscious and I put my grades above everything else. My life revolves around having good grades. That's when I also learned how to cheat; whenever I wasn't able to have a proper review for the upcoming learning assessment, I would cheat. I would form a connection with students who can give me answers or I may also create a "Kodigo" for the lessons. I lost the importance of education and learning, all because of wanting to make my parents proud. 

But it's not too long for me to realize that cheating is bad, so I stopped doing it and forced myself to work even harder again.

That's when I felt the pressure...