Everything I know about love, I Learned from Old Love Songs

(Originally posted on May 2018) Social media posts are full of excerpts from books, songs, poems, and movies used as captions for photos. Some are plainly posted as a user’s status to give his/her followers a hint of what he/she is feeling or going through. I noticed, people (specifically those in the ages 15-22, in accordance to those who I follow on social media) post mostly about love. Posts I usually see are about not being loved back, moving on, loving someone who only sees you as a friend, wanting to get back with your ex, and loving two people at the same time. While I see lines from the songs of Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, and Little Mix, I can’t help but sing old songs that have taught me completely how it’s like to be in those kinds of situation. Some of my colleagues think it’s weird that a 21-year-old woman like me would be more familiar with songs two decades older than I am than songs I literally live with right now. The reason being I grew up listening to my parents’…