Middle Child Syndrome – Between the Elder and the Younger ones
In this life's drama, we usually are NOT the ones with the main role. We usually tend to remain the outliers. Are we satisfied with being the point of interest after the overall drama performance? No! Not even that. We middle born are pleased with doing our part in the overall performance without any reward or any privilege, but only with a sense of contentment that develops over a lifetime of perseverance and the mastery of patience. We possess the ability to conciliate and still be successful in achieving the intended outcomes without being the antagonistic firstborn or the ‘needy child'.
Forced by the state of affairs to waitin line behind the senior child and then wait for the little child to catch up, we learned to move along within the pack. Understandably, our parents gave us little attention because of thecontentious senior and the underprivileged lastborn. And we should thank our parents for this. It actually gave us a chance to comprehend the world ourselves and freely explore everything we wanted to. One great example of this isUSA's 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt, who went on to explore everything freely. And to share with you a fun fact, 52 percent of all the presidents since 1787 have been middle children.
To say that we, middle children, have been ahead of our sibling's time will not be wrong. We have the advantage of time. Whenever we were waiting with our parents for our elder ones' or the younger one's activities to finish, we were basically stuck amidst our imagination. All this extra time made us more durable for times of patience and perfected our creativeness. We found so many things, like gaming, art, or literature, to fill out time with. To share another fun fact with you, Julia Roberts, David Letterman, and Madonna are middle childrenwith real creativity.
Even though, our siblings kept us waiting but it is rude to think of them like this. They are family. In fact, it was them who taught us about being happy with little. From them, we learned not to be LOUD in order to be successful. They helped us build up our patience level and the art of being quiet to be successful. Our ‘beloved' siblings taught us how we could quietly gain benefit from a situation without jeopardizing our own well-being. There is one specific personality who was quiet, a determined entrepreneur, and a middle child – Mr. Bill Gates.
We are well aware that all the good stuff is always in the middle. We have always kept our calm, given others a chance, and never been proud about it.
Forced by the state of affairs to waitin line behind the senior child and then wait for the little child to catch up, we learned to move along within the pack. Understandably, our parents gave us little attention because of thecontentious senior and the underprivileged lastborn. And we should thank our parents for this. It actually gave us a chance to comprehend the world ourselves and freely explore everything we wanted to. One great example of this isUSA's 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt, who went on to explore everything freely. And to share with you a fun fact, 52 percent of all the presidents since 1787 have been middle children.
To say that we, middle children, have been ahead of our sibling's time will not be wrong. We have the advantage of time. Whenever we were waiting with our parents for our elder ones' or the younger one's activities to finish, we were basically stuck amidst our imagination. All this extra time made us more durable for times of patience and perfected our creativeness. We found so many things, like gaming, art, or literature, to fill out time with. To share another fun fact with you, Julia Roberts, David Letterman, and Madonna are middle childrenwith real creativity.
Even though, our siblings kept us waiting but it is rude to think of them like this. They are family. In fact, it was them who taught us about being happy with little. From them, we learned not to be LOUD in order to be successful. They helped us build up our patience level and the art of being quiet to be successful. Our ‘beloved' siblings taught us how we could quietly gain benefit from a situation without jeopardizing our own well-being. There is one specific personality who was quiet, a determined entrepreneur, and a middle child – Mr. Bill Gates.
We are well aware that all the good stuff is always in the middle. We have always kept our calm, given others a chance, and never been proud about it.
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