A Brave Man

It was so cold this morning while I was running that I saw almost nobody outside. Only two men greeted me. One said, "Good morning." The other said, "Hi!"
 
I was dying from the cold. Databir told me to take thick gloves, but I took thin ones. Then I had to put my hands in front of my chest to keep my fingers warm. I haven't run for a few days because I have been afraid of the cold. That means that today I was a brave man.
 
-18 January 1983 
  
 
 
[Source: "A Brave Man" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 13, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]