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1. Middle Adolescence (15 - 17 years old)

1. I gained my first best friend that until now we are still in contact which I am grateful because this is the first time that my friendship with someone still survived.
2. I met many new friends after I started to like the anime “Haikyuu” and joined the fandom, they became part of my life that I will always remember.
3. The readers enjoyed reading the story I made which gained me a passion to write or come up with stories/ideas.
4. The anime music videos I made gained a lot of positive views and gained me motivation to make more in the future.
5. It is unforgettable that someone, an online friend of mine, still continued to talk to me despite after everyone left me. I am very thankful to that person.

2. Late Adolescence (18 - 20 years old)

1. My family and I celebrated my birthday. It was my first time replying happily with the greetings from my new friends.
2. I gained enough courage and motivation by the authors I look up to, to get back to writing after a long four years of hiatus.
3. Despite after going through so much pain, I learned that nothing can still stop me from doing the things I love to do.
4. I gained an important lesson from my online best friend whom I lost (I no longer talk to her anymore) yet I accepted because I wished for her to have a good life.
5. I was disheartened that someone got ahead of me that shares similarity to my story but someone encouraged me that I should continue it because it is my original version of the story and that shouldn’t make a scene of copying because it is only like an idea made out of that story. It is a great encouragement for me to continue to do the things I love.

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From Creative Journal Entry #2

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1. Is there a ‘center’ or a central theme in your timeline and life? If you will give a title for your timeline what would it be and why?

The central theme in my timeline would probably be that I found my hobby of creating stories, love for music and its lyrics, my works that I dedicate to the people who supports me and to make my viewers happy. So far they are the only things that revolves in my life and the things that helps me overcome my struggles, its as if my own efforts made it. Even before the years in my timeline, the changes all started when I entered high school. I decided to call my timeline “From All These Things I’ve Gone Through” those words are the continuation of the things in life I had endured. My title isn’t about symbols but the words itself because every word has a deep meaning to it and I wanted to show that my life is not about how others treat me by their words but the fear I struggles of others view and treat of me. I point out the things that changes my life fully and during all that I was still able to find the things that will give me happiness.

2. Identify the turning points in your timeline. What were the thoughts, feelings and actions that you experienced?

The turning points is about my broken friendship and how much it really affected, it just seems normal and common but for me it isnt, instead trauma and phobias was the result left in me. My thoughts were really negative, the positive in me couldn’t come to my mind anymore how much it gave me a huge shock. The feelings is really heartbreaking, after everything you’ve gone through together, everything will just lead that you were just being used for their own success. The actions I made is I did nothing. I just say it couldn’t be helped anymore. I made an effort to question them one by one but no one gave me the specific answer I seek. When I told them how I felt and they just denied it. Not once I never heard their real reason why they stopped talking to me and suddenly talked to me again like nothing happened when not knowing it raised more phobias (the phobia of I fear how people think of me) and doubts in me. Yet through all of that, it is about moving on and walking forward. My life is still developing unlike the others who had already but I can tell that this broken past is my turning point to find new discoveries in my future that is still unknown to my timeline.

3. Who are/were the most significant people in your life? How did they influence you?

I wouldn’t say that my life was filled with happiness. Besides my family who wholeheartedly supported me all the years, giving me freedom and understanding me little by little made me feel I wanted to return the kindness of everyone who helped me. My friends who became part of my world. My online friends who let me feel the fun of roleplaying different characters. Right now, despite my struggles in school works, there are others who helped me allt even though they do not know of it and those are the people I inspire inside the fandom I am in. I also have love for reading and they would always write their own versions of stories that will always lead me to excitement and feel different emotions. Their works always made me feel happy whenever I see it and encourages me to do my own style of art. Good or bad. As long as I did my best, I see it that the people I inspire helps alot and understand me even though they don’t know me yet in real life.

4. What would you change or add, if you could? How would each of these changes or additions affect your life, or even change its present course?

If I were to change or add, it would be change about friendships, I wouldn’t be this too many doubts of negatives about my life because every doubts I have in my future was influenced by it. Even if it says both are different things, it can’t be helped that those people had been part of your life, they had influenced my life fully and filled the hole in my heart. In addition, music/songs really helped me relate to the things I’m going through so I would focus more on the lyrics than the song such as the line “You build me up to tear me down” from Better Think. If I were to add, it would probably be my new discoveries of the things that I have yet to discover, the things I couldn’t do might actually something I can do.

5. Where do you want to be in a year, 5 years, and 10 years? What do you expect your future timeline will be?

In 5 years, I hope I can get into La Salle Benilde to continue the course of Multimedia and perhaps take on different positions in the Media Industry and to reunite with my best friend who also plans to go there or wherever college that God has set out for me. In 10 years, that path out there is still unknown but if I were to choose, I would be in Japan, managing or producing of a project in the industry, in an animation studio that assists on creating designs of the series or in a publishing company for my love in stories and because it is also my passion to learn Japanese and for stories. I expect that my future timeline would not be about broken friendships, instead I will just focus on my own works because I know I have no improvement or future for gaining ‘true friends’ so what I really expect or want to happen is that my future timeline would be about my struggles, ups and downs in my work and struggles to reach the goal I aimed for.

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1. What have you discovered in yourself?
That all the things I did, not all go to waste, my past experience has helped me become who I am today. Someone who struggles and has fallen down many times but still stands up like nothing happened and move forward. That there are still things I can do, things that will widen my skills and knowledge that there are more things out there that is waiting to be explored.

2. What are your core strengths?
The things that keeps me positive and motivation, my inspirations that gives me strengths. My love for music, stories, and anime that keeps me going, it’s a little bit more like a hobby but for me it is improving me to use my skills because music helps me control my emotions, anime gives me lessons in life and stories helps me discover new things that I never thought of. With that, thats where my determination come from, one that I am strive to achieve of what I will become in the future.

3. What do you consider as your weaknesses, abilities and talents?
My weaknesses is my negative side that has already given up on life, it triggers only when a situation is similar to my past, an example is when I felt like I’m nothing but a burden which I experience all the time due to my sensitive feelings. I do not have special abilities because I just do what I do and those are my hobbies. My abilities are the things I do, such as writing because that is how I express my feelings and the words I couldn’t convey. My talents are nothing special because I never experience what other talents I have due to the lack of social interactions I had in the past but the talents I developed through my own efforts are writing, video creation, reading, imaginative, and I encourage myself easily by using my hobbies as motivations.

4. What are the remedies you will take to improve or compensate for your weakness?
Overcoming your weakness is prove to be difficult as it is but if you look at it, your weakness is just a fog that blocks your way and you couldn’t see what the other side of it unless to move forward and see what’s the end of the fog looks like. It takes great effort, confidence and determination to improve the weakness and weaken in. Another way to improve the weakness is to move on from that fear and confront it with your heads up.

5. How can you further enrich your qualities, assets and strengths?
It takes hard work, effort, motivation and determination to enrich the strengths we have. Its hard to do it quickly because everything takes time and small step forward to fulfill it and possible moving on from those negative scenarios we experience. Friends and family are our greatest step to enrich our strengths for they had always helped us the most especially our family who stayed by our side from the beginning.

6. Where and how do you use it to your best advantage?
Whenever I’m in a positive attitude, I do things easily and get motivated to do the work that are stressful. I wouldn’t call it motivation doing it in school because for me I do my best and put everything I have in every works done in school.