equilibrium

What Dr. Mitchell said about the middle ground between the wilderness and civilization sparked a thought. This realm is touched on by many writers, especially the ones that come out of England, the most prominent being Tolkein's Middle Earth. The idea of this middle ground is compelling. It seems as if it is the equilibrium that men's souls search for. A man will feel smothered in the overwhelming order that is the city, while the supreme disorder that exists in the wilderness will drive him to madness. It would seem that the middle realm is where man is most at peace. This makes sense to me at least in that i feel most comfortable is a park or something to that effect. While it is a fabricated middle realm, it is the closest thing that we are capable of acheiving within our modern society. This idea of equilibrium permeates into many areas that men deal with and most of them pertain to the soul in some way or other. I think it is a very strong desire of man to attain equilibrium, and that desire creates tension because most of what man encounters is a polarization, i.e. the city and the wilderness. Thus, peace is found in the equilibrium.