Not a Runner

t one point in today's run, there was an old man standing by the side of the street with his dog. I was running quite fast, but perhaps I had a tortured look on my face because of my injury. Anyway, when he saw me he said, "You don't look like a runner!"
 
I said, "You are right. I am not a runner."
 
God was speaking through that man. The man should have told me, "You should give up running and be a non-runner like me."
 
-16 September 1982 
 
  
 
[Source: "Not a Runner" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 12, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]