Catalog; between grieving and moving on

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Grieving is a very famous topic when it comes to art and media; from the ancient art paintings to poetry to plays to movies and shows; It’s not a new topic because we all experience grieving in many ways; some experience it when the lose someone dear to their hearts; some when they lose a job or fail in achieving something; some when they go away from family, friends and loved ones; and some when they breakup with their lovers. 

Last month a new show hit Netflix, an Arabic Egyptian show called “Catalog”, starring “Mohamed Farag, Tara Emad, Khaled Kamal, Sedky Sakhr, Riham Abdelghafour, Bayomi Fouad, Samah Anwar, Ahmed Essam Elsayed, and with new faces, the children Retal AbdElAziz and Ali Beialy”.

It is a show about a man who is married and has two children, the wife dies and from here begins the show, how a man grieving the death of his wife, the women he loved the most and how he becomes the mother and the father, how he finds out what he was messing during his wife’s life; also we see the children grieving in their was, we see the idea of the family sticking together and how everyone of them grieving differently…

Here comes more of the story, so if you don’t want to read this skip; we see in the show that the man, the father and the husband “Farag” after losing his wife, will start a series of situations show us who he is and how he was before his wife died and how he will be, of course it’s a drama show but with lots of funny moments and crying and love; “Farag” will start realizing that his wife like so many wives was handling the house and children very well and that wasn’t his part so he was so busy in his work all the time.

But after his wife’s death, he will fall in a huge mess and not know how to handle it; his wife was a YouTuber, she was making videos about family, how to understand your children and how to raise them, to help other mothers and even fathers on her channel called “Catalog Amina”; we’ll see that “Farag” will find her channel, that he never watched while she was alive by the way; and he will start watching her videos to help himself to handle the house and the kids.

The show is an amazing mix of comedy, and drama; in my opinion it is a piece of art and so much needed; yes, sometimes you need to watch something that has a part of your life or even similar to it; for many years, I didn’t watch something in Arabic that amazing and beautifully done with respect for the viewers; I loved it so much, loved the dialogue, the script and the cast and their chemistry.

The show mentioned grieving in a lot of forms, some grieve by crying and stop living, some grieve within their hearts, from inside, and can’t talk about it, or don’t want to, some grieve with holding memories and talk about all the time, but will live and go on because they believe that this is life and it keeps moving; grieving isn’t a one form, it has a lot of ways…

The show tells us that our mistake is that we take people who love us and we love for granted and think that we will always be together,  but unfortunately, that’s not true, and it’s not only death that separates us, but also leaving separates us forever.

We as humans take a lot of things for granted, which makes us never know the value of the gifts and people in our lives; the show talks about this and how we always make this mistake, but in the show he has a catalog to deal with kids, life, house, and problems, but do we all have the same catalog??

Do we have videos of people we lost or left us? Do we have even letters from them to read when we miss them? No, we don’t,  but we all have their memories, a lot of people lost their parents, or one of them, a lot lost their wives/husbands, a lot lost friends and family; but not all have anything but some memories.

Do we need a catalog? A video? A letter? No, but we need to understand something before it’s too late, don’t take anyone or anything for granted,  if you love someone show it, tell it, and live it; if you see someone in need, give help; if you’ve something in your heart for anyone such as anger, or misunderstanding, go and talk to them, if not talking, if it’s late to talk, then forgive them and yourself…

Grieving isn’t easy, and death isn’t the only reason, sickness causes Grieving, leaving causes Grieving,  losing a dream, a job, or failing causes Grieving.

And we don’t all have a catalog to rely on or some videos like in the movie “The Life List” or letters like in the Indian movie “Kuch kuch Hota Hai”, we just have memories,  memories of endless conversations, fights, arguments, crying, and laughing.

Watch this show and learn to seize the moment,  live, love, forgive, and move on; also the show teaches us that moving on isn’t something shameful or not good or inappropriate or something,  moving on is part of life, and it’s not against grieving, I don’t think people who left us want us to stop living life, to stop working and achieving our goals and dreams; they want us to live and to be happy again.

Grieving and moving on are parts of life, they aren’t against each other…

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