Waiting for Godot is a play in which nothing happens. Explain?

Waiting for Godot is a short play.
Otherwise it might grow tedious because it is true that nothing much happens. Samuel
Beckett's purpose was, to use Shakespeare's words, "to hold the mirror up to nature."
Beckett is showing the audience how they themselves are waiting, how everyone in the
world (perhaps with some exceptions) is waiting for his or her Godot. The irony is that
the people in the audience are looking at themselves without realizing it. The waiting
is what happens. The play is about waiting for something to happen which is probably
never going to happen.

Alexander Pope
wrote:

Hope
springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be
blessed.

Henry James's
wonderful short story "The Beast in the Jungle" is about a man who finds out that he has
been waiting all his life for something to happen and what was happening was the wait
itself. Beckett may have gotten the inspiration for his play from this
story.

Godot is evidently a real person and most likely an
important man. But why should he want to meet these two bums or do anything to help
them? They are waiting for someone to help them because they are bums, and they are bums
because they are waiting for someone to help them. If they had sense enough and gumption
enough to look out for themselves, they wouldn't have to be waiting for Godot--and they
wouldn't be bums.