I Want to Jog With You

This afternoon, around two o'clock, I was running near the school opposite Lavanya's street. Three or four little children came out of the school. One of them, a little girl of five or six, got the inspiration to run with me. So she crossed the street, since I was on the other side, and came running up to me with her books, saying, "Sri Chinmoy, I want to jog with you." She had perfect pronunciation. For her, it was 'jogging'. I had been running quite fast, but as soon as she started jogging, I had to slow down. She ran with me for forty metres and she was so delighted.
 
When she stopped, I gave her a smile and I continued my run.
 
-9 October 1980 
 

[Source: "I Want to Jog With You" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 4, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1981.]