In one version of the story about the historical Buddha, the Middle Way is spoken of using an analogy of tuning a string: if it is too tight, it will snap; if it is too slack, it cannot be played at all. Fortunately, though we may believe or be told otherwise, there is not a specific note to which the tune must be tuned; in between the extremes of too tight and too slack, there is a vast and varied range of playability, beyond the limits and confines of a single note. The same is true of our lives: there are extremes we can go to which are ultimately unhelpful, yet in between these there is a vast and varied territory of life and the living of it, calling for continual adjusting and adapting and re-tuning. Thus, there is not just one way of being or one way to be, for just as life itself is in constant flux, so are we.