He ran off the road and into the woods to be free of people, and he kept running till he realized he could not feel fully free till he was out of not only the sight but also the reach of anyone.  How was he to manage that?  He was too attached to people and things to feel free of them.  Perhaps running off into the woods could continue to satisfy a sense of the free in him, but, to not always have to run off the road, he did long to be able to feel free when with people everywhere around.  He tried looking at people as trees, and things as foliage, and his movement among them did begin to feel more unrestricted, but that was only till one of the trees slammed into his bicycle.  That person yelled, Heywatchit!, and kept on, leaving him on the ground.  He got up, leaned his bicycle against a tree, took off running — and ran into a perception that to feel free in society was to isolate oneself within one’s own aloneness, or craziness.  That explained why society had a built-in release valve that allowed people to periodically run off the road and into the woods.