Tadi ada beberapa orang yg bahas mengenai #romantichour di twitter, including my favorite writers, Adhitya Mulya and Ninit Yunita. They’re married and actually, people who tweeted about #romantichour are married people…mostly. Since I’m not married yet, I don’t feel like I have the capacity to tweet such things. However, I still feel like I need to write down my thoughts of it.
Gue dan Timur biasa menggunakan istilah ‘quality time’ instead of ‘romantic hour’. We can spend hours of talking, because both of us basically love to talk. Sebenernya sih yg penting itu bukan berapa lama kita ngobrol sama pasangan, tapi seberapa berkualitasnya obrolan kita sama pasangan. Now that I am officially magang, otomatis jadi jarang ke kampus dan jarang bisa spend many hours with Timur. We still manage to have some quality time tho, be it during lunch time on Friday or having a late-night snack on Sunday. Sejam doang pun ngga masalah, asalkan obrolannya berkualitas. Catching up on things, joking about practically everything, and stuffs.
Gue percaya bahwa quality time sama pasangan itu penting, karena itu membuka peluang bagi lo dan pasangan lo untuk saling mengenal juga saling memahami. It strengthens the bond. Quality time ngga harus dihabiskan di fancy restaurant atau manalah. Teras rumah juga oke. Angkringan pun bisa. The place doesn’t matter, yg penting how you two enjoy it. I remember clearly ngobrol sama Timur dari jam 5 sore sampai jam 10 malem. Awalnya ngobrol di kampus, terus sambil jalan kaki di pinggiran Margonda, dan berakhir di teras rumah. Terlihat sederhana, tapi konten obrolannya jangan ditanya. Super seru. Again, the point of having quality time dengan pasangan ataupun romantic hour adalah to strengthen the bond between you two. It doesn’t matter where you have the talk, as long as you’re having a great time with your loved one.
Memang betul bahwa teknologi mempermudah komunikasi, dimana salah satunya ya mempermudah komunikasi dalam berpacaran juga. Tapi secanggih apapun WhatsApp, FaceTime, BBM, or whatever the technology is, ngobrol face-to-face tetap yg terbaik. So, selama apapun lo BBM-an dengan pasangan, tetaplah menyempatkan diri untuk spend some quality time together or romantic hour. It feels wonderful, trust me ;)
