PROLOGUE

DARREN VALDEZ, 2021

Senior High School

This has to be one of the major parts of anyone’s life. Really, I was nothing before I finally reached Senior High School. I was a complete nobody. So I have decided that I must go big this time. To not go unnoticed, I had taken every chance I could get to make a mark. And joining the student council was my first step. I made my first step, then the next, and the next step after, until my whole journey for Senior High School was mostly being the student leader. Whenever students, teachers, and staff heard the words: ABM(Accountancy, Business and Management) Strand Representative, Technical Director, Secretary, my name automatically popped up in their minds. Because those words were who I am, and I admit I completely went All-in during this one major part of my life.

I wasn't nothing anymore.

I wasn't a nobody anymore.

I was something,
Therefore, I had become a mark.
Of course, my life wasn’t just all about school and academics. As a teen boy with a big heart, I had a few crushes too. Girls that I fancied, but not for long. But that’s all, no more, I guess that’s it.

PHELOTHEA VALDEZ, 2021

Senior High School

To be completely honest, I don't even know how I should handle the situation. I know I just have a few more years left, then I'll get into college, and this all will be over forever. But I also have no idea what course I should take, either. I guess I'm playing my life blind; I don't know my own plans. Hilarious, isn’t it? Furthermore, I don’t even know if I will ever have plans to begin with. Yes. There are a lot of things in my life that I may not yet know. But I naively believe life is just like that. It's full of unknown surprises and possibilities. I just have to get along with it and enjoy the ride. I will face whatever comes my way, hopefully deal with it
I may be happy,
I may be sad,
I may be angry,
Or go crazy eventually.

But I'll know for sure that I'll be living my own life. I will feel alive more than anyone else in the world. That's my life. And that's my plan for it.