Why are You Running Now?

While I was running on the marathon course, one black girl said to me, "You fool, next week is the marathon! Why are you running now?"
 
-23 October 1982 
 
  
 
[Source: "Why are You Running Now?" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 12, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]