The middle child

Why do people say the middle child gets shafted?
First of all look at his adorable face!! The oldest and the youngest have adorable faces too, but that does not make his less adorable. He can be funny, and incredibly loving! The oldest and the youngest can too but it does not make him less funny or less loving. He loves to wear button-down shirts, unbuttoned and with a t-shirt underneath, he thinks it makes him look like a "rocket star". He likes to wear boxers to bed (at 4). He cried nonstop when he was a baby. He is more even tempered than his older brother, but much meaner at times too. He was not the first to go to kindergarten, but he was the first to score a soccer goal! He is just his own person, not better, not worse than the other two, just different. I have never felt bored with his age because I've already had one at that age before. More often I am amazed that 4 year olds can be so similar and so different at the same time.
But will he use the middle child excuse anyway? Will he grow up and feel like he missed out on something because he was the middle child, or he was treated different than the older one and younger one? The fun thing about having 3 kids is having three different experiences for everything!! Why would the middle experience hold less importance?? He teaches me just as much as the other two do, there have been many times when I was dreading doing something with him because it was never fun to do with the older one and he makes it fun and easy. There has also been times that I have been looking forward to doing something that I always enjoyed with the older one and it turns out to be a disaster! This holds true for the younger one too. I love them all, in different ways, don't understand the middle child thing. I hope he never feels like "a middle child".
Eric playing guitar to his "friend" Alix