Such Sympathy

During the Prevention Marathon I did a thirteen-mile training run. After four or five miles a young boy of seven or eight gave me water. He asked, "Sir, will you be able to make it?" Such sympathy he was showing me after four or five miles!
 
-1 March 1981 

[Source: "Such Sympathy" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 5, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1981.]