The extra mile⁵⁰

My road crew is very good, but sometimes when I give them a job, they forget to do it. Then, I bark at them like anything.

Yesterday I wanted to run only 400 metres, and when I didn’t see any mark, I said, “Perhaps I made a mistake.” I went on running farther and farther. Finally it became one mile — 800 metres one way and 800 back. My road crew had forgotten to measure that route.

Afterwards, I had them drive that way in a car and we discovered that I had run one mile extra.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Run and become, become and run, part 1, Agni Press, 1979
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