A Real Man

I was running near my 500-metre mark on 150th Street when a young student with a tape recorder in his hand came out of his house. He was listening to music. When he saw me he said, "Happy birthday!"
 
I said, "Thank you!"
 
Then he said, "You are a real man. There are very few real men on this earth."
 
"Real" means that I am a good man.
 
-23 August 1982 
  
 
 
[Source: "A Real Man" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 11, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]