MEMELUK MASA LALU

 

MEMELUK MASA LALU

 

Book title                        : Memeluk Masa Lalu

Publisher                        : PT. Bentang Belia

Writer                             : Dwitasari

Publication year            : 2016

Book thickness              : 128 page

Dimensions                   : 18 cm

Book price                     : Rp.35.000.-

  The book tells the story of a person who is in love at first sight but is silently silent and ends up not being together.

    The beginning of this story begins when Cleo, a 17-year-old high school student, wants to go to Jogja to visit her mother's grave. Cleo goes to joga by bus, and here the beginning of the story begins. Cleo meets a 22-year-old man named Raditya. initially Cleo and Raditya had met at the terminal when Raditya was sitting next to Cleo and she was smoking. Because Cleo didn't like cigarettes unceremoniously snatched the cigarette from Raditya's mouth and stepped on the cigarette, but Raditya didn't want to take the cigarette again. After that, the bus with the destination of Jogja will leave immediately, and it turns out that their seats are next to each other. When they were on their way they were silent on each other, until when Raditya was helping the kernet bus to change tires, and that's where Cleo started to get interested in Raditya. When Raditya finished confirming the tires, he returned to the bus to continue the journey to Jogja. During the journey Cleo looked at Raditya's sleeping face, she was very amazed by the good looks of a Raditya. When the bus arrived at the Joga they separated without exchanging contacts and other social media accounts.

     A few years later Cleo was already 20 years old and she was already a famous writer. Cleo wrote a book about her encounter with Raditya, and got the reader carried away. Cleo meets Raditya again on an app. At that time, Raditya was already 25 years old, they sent messages to each other and Cleo was surprised when she turned out to be texting with Raditya her first love. It turns out that during these 3 years Raditya was also looking for Cleo, finally they decided to meet and exchange their contacts and social media accounts. They eventually meet at a restaurant and they express their feelings to each other, but unfortunately they can't be together because raditya will soon be married to her best friend named Nanda. Cleo is very hurt and shocked but she tries to accept fate. Eventually they were not together and lived their own lives.

 

The part I like most about this book is, When Cleo advises readers not to waste the first meeting, Cleo always prays that no one will regret it for belittling the first meeting, and Cleo's hope to readers is that the readers will not feel the same pain and hurt as Cleo.

So the conclusion is that if we are attracted to someone at the first meeting, we should not be shy about asking for their name or asking for that person's social media accounts, to establish communication. And also so that we won't regret it later.