13 Ways You’re Becoming Your Lebanese Parent

Life slowly creeps up on us all, doesn’t it? If you spent your teenage years and early 20s rallying around how you were so different than your Lebanese parents, we have some bad news. More likely than not, you are slowly becoming more and more like them, here’s how. 1. You are the one now worrying about the jacket? Do I need a jacket? Where’s your jacket? You need a jacket! 2. You spend more than 1 minute thinking about tupperware It’s over. 3. You force feed guests And then ask them if they want coffee or tea to get them to leave. 4. You have a few homemade remedies you fully believe in 7-Up, rosemary oil, zhourat, magic! 5. You refuse to eat out Fi akel bel beit! 6. You know way too much about a single specific topic But you have no kids to badger with this info…yet. 7. You don’t understand TikTok Too much going on. 8. You don’t understand the youths Like fr rn how do you not get it? 9. You have accepted that this is your job forever Yeah that Master’s I said I would go back and do? I’m ready to accept it’s not happening. 10. You are way too dramatic “Ma 7ada b hemo eza metet hala2!” Ok. 11. You need to have the TV remote in your hand No one else knows how to change the volume, trust me. 12. You have an obsessive need to gossip and judge DID YOU SEE THAT?! 13. You are asleep by 9 most days Okay, grandma. 1