As he walks on, the Man doesn’t feel happy or sad, but balanced. Who he is is still left to be determined, and that is fine with him. 

“Monks, these two extremes ought not to be practiced by one who has gone forth from the household life. There is addiction to indulgence of sense-pleasures, which is low, coarse, the way of ordinary people, unworthy, and unprofitable; and there is addiction to self-mortification, which is painful, unworthy, and unprofitable.”   — The Buddha