In between writing today, I headed over to YouTube (procrastination
101) and to my most pleasant surprise, there was a newly uploaded video on Ed
Sheeran’s channel. It was titled ‘Galloway girl’ and it just took me back to
the time I at university in Scotland. So, I hit play, the music starts and he
goes “she played the fiddle in an Irish band and fell in love with an English
man” and I was hooked.
I kept playing it on loop and the story in the whole video
made me smile and cry at the same time. The places that he visits with the girl
in a vibrant city like Galway or Dublin is filled with things that we have all
done and perhaps, this is the reason it hit me so close to the heart. A night
out with someone special. Even though you do something as mundane as hopping
from pub to pub, you still feel excitement and joy because of the man or woman
beside you.
As I sat sipping my tea, I thought back to his other popular
songs like “Thinking Out Loud” and “Shape of You” and it hit me that these songs
are all about love. It’s the kind of love that everyone has experienced at some
point in their lives, whether you’re the romantic kind of girl or the girl who
sweats it out at the gym or someone who just likes to have fun.
I am guilty of having a prejudice against romance books
written by men. It came from a belief that men don’t really understand
feelings, that they are not as deep as a woman’s but Ed Sheeran broke that
perspective of mine today. All his songs are beautiful and make me feel so much
love even though it is from the view point of a man.
So, from this day on I am going to be more open to reading
romance novels written by men. I will make sure that it is the story
description of the back that draws me to read the whole story instead of the name
of the author.
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