An Important Advice

“Action speaks louder than words,” mother always told me.

I would always brag to her that I would become a world-renowned doctor, but she always said the same thing which annoyed me. One day, I finally understood what this advice meant.

I was the top scorer of my school and I could not stop tooting my horn. I looked down on everyone as I felt that I was smarter than all of them. Every student in the school always expected full marks from me. I thought I was the queen of the whole school.

Weeks before examinations, I nudged my partner and proclaimed smugly, “I’m going to top the class again!”

She just rolled her eyes and continued taking notes.

“What’s the point of taking notes if you were to have a brain like mine?” I boasted as I doodled aimlessly on my worksheets.

The day of the examination arrived. I breezed through the questions. Yes! First to finish again! I slumped on my table and began to daydream. Every other student was still busy doing the paper or racking their brains.

Two weeks later, we received our papers. I was dumbfounded. Not only had I not gotten full marks, I had failed terribly. I was utterly embarrassed.

“Charlotte! How many marks did you get?” my classmates asked.

My face flushed red and I hid my paper behind my back. They snickered. It turned out that my partner had seen my marks and spread it to the whole class. Ashamed, I left the classroom and headed to the toilet to cry.

When I got home, I told mother about what had happened.

“Now, do you understand what ‘action speaks louder than words’ mean?” mother questioned.

I nodded.

“If you mean what you say, then prove it through actions! I hope you have learnt your lesson!” mother chided.

After this incident, I stopped bragging and became humbler. I hit the books, finished all my homework on time, and even helped tutor my friends. In the end, through actions, not talk, I became the top student again.

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