The Tennis Shoes

Today, my bad luck started right from early in the morning. I have two pairs of running shoes, but they were all inside the car. So I was running in my tennis shoes. My tennis shoes are heavy. They kept striking the ground while I was running, hurting me like anything.
 
I ran five and a half miles. Then I said, "Why run anymore?" Then I walked two miles.
 
26 December 1979 
 

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