15 Memories You Have With Your Best Friend In Lebanon

Some of our most cherished memories are with our best friend, and there are quite a few that we can think of right off the top of our heads.

How many of these memories do you have with your best friend?

1. Knowing all of each other’s family gossip early on in your friendship

And that means having favorite family members that you might have never met. Tante Samira? Ma mentee2a. Eben 3ammik Ahmad? Lseno taweel. 3ammo Jihad? Ahdam 3ammo.

2. Struggling to parallel park in Beirut for your first outing together after getting your license

You got your license first. It’s time to finally take your bestie out. You have to park. You didn’t think it through. It’s a learning experience for the both of you.

3. Attempting to tzabto meshwar ba7er ento w zghar that never happened

You’ve been friends for 12 years w ma 3melto hal meshwar. And now you’re adults and plan roadtrips to Batroun that never happen.

4. Being called far7a w mar7a at some point by your parents

Two peas in a pod. Tizen bfard lbes, if you will. And everyone knew it.

5. Having the most terrifying pictures of your younger selves at each other’s birthdays that could practically be used as blackmail

Red eyes, sha3ratna mankoosheen, Birkenstocks on, Ed Hardy merch, and just a little sweat on our upper lip.

6. Having to remind your dad about meen your best friend

“Baba jeye la3ende Lea lyom”

“Meen Lea?”

Mashi bas my best friend since kindergarten that you’ve seen a million times already…

7. Angry texting each other “lesh ma 3azamtoone?” bas kento tnazlo sooret akel

We took it even more personally when it’s your friend’s teta making the food. Actually, we still do that.

8. Having the most horrendous WhatsApp stickers that you can only send to each other

NSFW stickers, candid shots, childhood photos…the sky’s the limit. You better hope you don’t accidentally send any of them to group l 3ayle.

9. Going to Roadster or Dunes in Verdun during middle school felt like the best outing ever

That was your peak dahra destination and it will always have a special place in your heart.

10. Getting caught in a lie and your bestie helping you get out of it

“Eh kenna b hal mahal shi se3ten w tafa my phone kermel hek ma raddet” and your bestie comes through with an elaborate lie that your parents believe because it’s just that convincing.

11. Having that one kid you used to gossip about during school who ignites that childlike spark in you every time you bring them up as adults

You think you stop gossiping like kids when you grow up but you always find a way to bring up the most random people from middle school to talk about.

12. Changing your Facebook relationship status to sisters/brothers because you wanted the world to know how close you were

And we’d do it again.

13. And poking each other like there’s no tomorrow on Facebook

Mashi poke back and forth like that was the only thing the platform was for.

14. Being the tabbouleh to their fattoush

You’re not polar opposites, but you differ in preferences. Meaning you’re fattoush, they’re tabbouleh. You’re hommos, they’re mtabbal. You’re shawarma lahme, they’re shawarma djej. It’s science.

15. Solidifying your friendship with a random matching item

The same collection of silly bands, different colored Scooby Doos, or BFF necklaces from Claires that turned green literally two days later.