The Fast Runner

I wonder if some people are clever like me. When they see I am coming, they go fast. That's what I do when I see some people. I don't want them to see that I am running so slowly, so when I come near them-about thirty metres away-I increase my speed. I keep this speed for about twenty metres after I pass them. Then, when I think they are out of sight, I slow down.
 
21 December 1979 
 

[Source: "The Fast Runner" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 3, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1980.]