The Policeman

Twenty metres away from the five-mile mark there was a parked police car with two policemen in it. One of them was asleep. The other one said to me, "Sir, how I wish I didn't have duty at this hour. Why don't you go and rest? Why do you have to run at this hour?"
 
I said, "I enjoy it."
 
He asked, "Where are you going?"
 
I answered, "Somebody has put water at this spot to drink."
 
The policeman said, "Don't you want to drink it? Aren't you thirsty?"
 
I said, "No, I am not thirsty."
 
"Go home and sleep," he said. 
 

 
[Source: "The Policeman" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 2, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1979.]