Is your friend a Monday lover? Is that friend so in love with life that sometimes you avoid them just so you can prevent yourself from punching them in the face for always being so happy? Are you always looking for chords that connect that friend to a happiness source so you can pull the cord out and make them quiet -- and less annoyingly happy? Is this the type of friend who would laugh through an argument? Chances are, and you need to find this out, that this friend is a middle sibling. And you are lucky to have one in your life. You are even luckier if you are the energetic fun-filled friend I just described above. If, however, you are unlucky enough to not have the friend, here are a few reasons why you need to start thinking of finding one. These reasons also work as great pointers to finding one.
But first, a little background on the middle siblings. So why do middle siblings have the traits they have? It is simple. It is because they grew up in the middle. They have the experience of coming too late in the family to experience both the material and emotional privileges, and too early to get and keep the attention the last child has. This has made them not only learn to not expect much from the world, but also work to get the best from the world. And that includes getting the best from friendships.
Apart from them being annoyingly cheerful, here are a few reasons why you need them in your life.
They are great with dealing with conflict.
The middle sibling position is a place where the person had to deal with the controlling older siblings and the whiny little or last siblings. Chances are, middle siblings are very slow to anger, and deal with conflicts between friends tactfully and effectively. Try holding a grudge against a middle sibling and see how long that lasts.
They will champion your rights.
Their character is made for it. They understand... most things. Their position is associated with activists such as the civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., human rights and environmental activist Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, and civil rights activist and great president Nelson Mandela. So take my word, they will get you out of anything.
You will always have a reason to love them.
They are very personable. If you will not love them for the fact that they go out in search of you because the love from the parents in the family is spent by the time it reaches them, you’ll love them for their social skills, their levelheadedness and their ability to spread happiness wherever they go.
They will let you have the last piece.
For middle siblings, compromise has been a word their life has known too well. They, therefore, will not be after getting everything for themselves.
Do you have a middle sibling friend? Watch to see if what I have written about them is untrue. Don’t have one? You do not know what you have been missing.
