“Are we there yet?” This is a question parents with young children have gotten used to hearing – especially during long drives – and it can drive everyone else crazy. Children usually ask this question not because they want to annoy their parents but because they don’t have a sense of time and distance necessary to understand and accept their situation.
Recently, I’ve been hearing and reading this phrase all over social media in #Lebanon. Are we there yet? It is referring to whether we have reached rock bottom, or reached hell. Lebanese people are so bewildered and confused during this crisis that they seem to have no sense of time and distance …no sense of how long this will last and no idea if it will ever get better.