英語検定ライティング準１級（第200回）

祝200回「気の進まないことは続かない話」

英作文を初めて投稿したのは先月の初旬だった。まだ２カ月にはならない。目標は1000本の投稿にしている。平均して１日に６本は投稿できている。だが年内に達成するのは無理かな。
About one and a half month has passed since my English composition was posted here for the first time.
Two months haven’t passed yet, and my goal is that I would post my English composition 1000 times.
So far, on average, about six passages have been posted, which could last until my soul goes somewhere.
However, I cannot achieve my goal described above until the end of the year, which might be inevitable, I assume.

この投稿は義務的におこなっていない。好きでやっている。そうでないと続かない。受験期も同じだった。苦手な科目は伸びない。全科目を網羅しろと学校は言っていた。それは無理だ。
This habit of mine hasn’t been conducted compulsorily because what is in my head wants to leave my mind as the form of English composition, which several readers find something interesting or something persuasive.
What is favorite could last forever, and vice versa, in short, what is compulsory wants to leave our business.
In my examinee season, about four decades ago, a few subjects I disliked failed to enter into my head, at the same time, they didn’t make positive contributions to my examination ordeal at all although several teachers around us forced us to study almost all subjects including what didn’t matter to humanities students.
Only now, their commands were something unnecessary.

英作文は楽しい。もっと早くに気づくべきだった。だが今からでも遅くはない。まず思っていることを日本語で書く。それを英語にする。この１カ月ちょっとでかなりスピードが増した。
In contrast, English composition enables me to feel pleasant or comfortable, which I should have become conscious of even earlier, but it isn’t too late, time tells.
What should be done first is to write what is in my mind in Japanese, and it is translated into English.
Such tasks could be completed in a shorter time as compared with that of the previous my ability, time tells.

多くはないが読んでくれる読者もいるのでモチベーションは保てる。楽しい趣味なら継続できる。逆もそうだ。苦手なことは続かない。筋トレもすぐ辞めた。英作文なら続けられそうだ。
Only a few readers have participated in these passages released from my head, which has kept my motivation so far because nobody fails to continue his or her enjoyable hobbies, and vice versa, in other words, nobody never fail to continue something unfavorite, everyone knows.
An understandable example is that my strength training has gone somewhere in a few weeks, but this habit of writing passages in English could last forever, time tells.