Why Are You Walking?

Yesterday morning I was walking at about 5 o'clock. A middle-aged man saw me two different times. He asked, "Why are you walking and not running?" I gave him a smile.
 
30 January 1980 
 

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