Why Are You Quitting?

Two hours later, when I was running again, I ran only 800 metres. A middle-aged man said, "I just started. Why are you quitting?"
 
I said, "I am very tired." He had just started running, and I was stopping.
 
14 January 1980 
 

[Source: "Why Are You Quitting?" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 3, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1980.]