Composed by Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang - AV06 QL2

“You will be failed only if you give up every attempt”. That is the familiar saying of MC Quyen Linh in Overcome Yourself program on TV every Fridays. I like this saying very much because it motivates me in every difficult situation in my life, and it also reminds me that in these cases, if we do nothing, it means we do something wrong to myself and to others. Therefore, in my opinion doing nothing means something wrong.

Firstly, I feel doing nothing means something wrong to myself because it makes me lazy and become worse in my life. For instant, I am now an English student in the last year, but I can not speak English fluently, read English book comprehensively, write an English essay coherently, and listen to English speaker clearly. I have realized my trouble for so long, and I have planned to improve myself several times. I have thought that I have to practice speaking English more frequently in class, in English speaking club, and even in daily conversations in order to improve my speaking skill. However, until now it is still in my mind. That leads me not confident when speaking English now. In addition, I have collected a lot of English books with the desire to improve my reading skill, but they are just on the shelves in my room. Besides that, there are also a lot of other plans that I have given in my mind to develop my English skills and even myself. However, until this time, all of them still stand in my mind, nothing happens. I just think, but I do nothing. As the result, my English skills have not become better for many years. That is the reason why I feel guilty to myself when I do nothing.

Second, doing nothing means something wrong to others. I often go to school by bus. The bus is usually crowded and the seats always full of people. Once, I went to school earlier, so I had a seat. After travelling for fifteen minutes, as usual the bus was tight with people and certainly no seat was free. When the bus stopped at a bus station, an old woman got on. Everyone saw her, but none gave her a seat, even me. About one minute passed by; a little girl suddenly stood up and invited the old woman to sit down although she was too short to reach knocks on the bus. At that time, my blood was running cold and my face was changing into red. I am very ashamed of an old woman, of a little girl and of myself. I did nothing – did not give the old woman my seat as soon as I saw her getting on. That is one of my experiences which make me feel something wrong to others when I do nothing.

In conclusion, I wish the time could come back, I would conduct all my plans even my laziness to make my English skills and me myself better and give the old woman my seat. Based on what happened to me, I have learned that doing nothing just gives us the feeling of guilt and great regret, so do anything we can right now to make our life better.