15 Ways Life In Lebanon Makes You Cheat On Yourself Every Single Day

Congratulations, you played yourself.


1. When you drive around and around in circles determined to park your car yourself but then give it to valet in the end.




2. When you tell people you only smoke when you drink but it’s summertime and you and your friends drink every day so…




3. When you say you’re going to start trying new things so you sign up for one yoga class and then you don’t ever go.




4. When your mom tells you to bring a jacket, you have a fight with her telling her it’s summertime and you won’t need a jacket, and then you end up wearing it later in the day because you did, in fact, need a jacket.


5. When you swear you’re going to start being more active but then you plan your trips according to the electricity cut times so that you don’t have to walk up the stairs whenever you get home.




6. When you try to move on from your ex but then go to all the bars and restaurants you used to frequent together just in hopes of seeing them.


7. When you complain about how much they play songs like Despacito on the radio, but then sing your heart out to it when they play it at Caprice.




8. When you swear to your friends that you’ll stop eating Barbar late at night but then you drive there alone after each and every sahra.


9. When you start making plans to leave Beirut every weekend and end up at Sporting Beach every Saturday because you can’t get out of bed early enough to make it to Anfeh.




10. When you talk about how polluted the sea is and claim that you’d never so much as dip your toe in it but then you get drunk at Pierre and Friends and dive right in.


11. When you ask for the low-cal menu at Roadster Diner but then end up getting the super sampler anyway.




12. When you swear you won’t go out on weekdays anymore but then you realize that AHM is opening this Friday and you’ll probably end up at every single Love Night on Thursdays and you’ll be hungover at work every Friday for the rest of summer.


13. When you protest the superficial aspects of Lebanese society but follow Myriam Klink on Instagram.




14. When you complain about how much people gossip in this society but you’re the first to spread the news that Maya and Karim were seen making out at a bar in Mar Mikhael.


15. When you whine to your parents that you don’t have any privacy and want to be independent but you don’t pay rent, you eat your mom’s cooking every day, and she still books all of your doctor’s appointments on your behalf – and escorts you to them, too.