Neither here nor there
If the pendulum swung right, and hovered there for quite some time. Then, the way to equilibrium is not to swing it equally hard to the left (and keep it there). Equilibrium lies between the two...
Yet with real life problems, more often then not, we see it as either "left" OR "right". While forgetting completely the the middle even exists Probably because being in the middle feels equally uncomfortable for «people of the "right" side» as well as for «people of the "left" side».