I just watched “Baar Baar Dekho”. And yes, it is not a good movie. And no, this is not a movie review.
The story is about mending mistakes from our pasts and is a play on “what-ifs”. A thought that is so central to our entire living process. We love to glorify the past and regularly utter, “Kaash.. maine aisa kiya hota”.
“Only if I had done this…” “or a that..” “then this would have happened”, “or not happened”. And lines we like to use on loop.
We all wish things to happen in a certain way. According to our plan.
When we realize things are not happening according to the plan in our head, we try to find reasons. We blame that reason and then move on using those, “Ifs”, yet again.
There’s nothing wrong in analyzing our own lives and looking back in time. And it is even amazing when we can learn our lessons from those past happenings.
But what’s more important here is the acceptance of the time gone by. Acceptance that it all happens for the better. Even when it doesn’t go according to our plan, it is still fine. It is all a zero-sum game, anyway.
Like this movie I just watched (ironically called Baar Baar Dekho!), without bad movies like these, how can one appreciate the good ones? We should always be thankful to the bad movies.