Middle-ground

When we are young, we have it easy. Unfounded confidence and untested convictions informed much of my muddling through as I tried growing up. Whether I have grown up or have just aged is open to interpretation. In any case, I am not young anymore. As I near middle-age, inevitably, I keep looking out for the middle-ground--especially social and political middle-ground (typical of a liberal and a moderate, you say). Where does it lie, the middle-ground? Where is that space that exists between Light and Dark, Charity and Humanity, Left and Right, Rational and Emotional?

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