you're taking over the beat of my body

eternally relevant

hello, how are you? take a minute to really about that before you answer. i don't ask you guys enough about you - it's become a very mitchgcole-centred world over here at this particular blog and that's something i want to change, especially coming up to christmas. i want to turn it around and look at the bigger picture, rather than the day i've had or the things i've done. i'm craving some interaction, some feedback, some reassurance, some constructive criticism, some inspiration and you can give me that.

"oh fucking hell, it's emo hour"

i used to pride myself on being so immune to peer pressure and other people's influence but it's rapidly dawning on me that i've become an emotional sponge. it's like my sympathy meter is working overtime and it's exhausting me. whilst i might be dead on the inside to some extent, i'm so prone to picking up on people's "vibes" - it's no fault of their own, it's not really anyone's fault, but i am getting far too switched on to their moods that i completely forget about my sheer joy about waking up at 5am and then going the fuck back to sleep for another 5 hours. that's right, this terrible tuesday was a mere half day.

so this time instead of dishing out advice i need to take myself, i'm asking for yours. how do you switch off to other people's juju? do you just learn not to care so much about people as you get older? i don't want to be that person but i can't keep letting everyone else get in the way of my contentment (#selfish). let's take a moment to remember how i started this post talking about you guys and making this about you and then wrote two paragraphs about my own emotional well-being. i can't apologise enough.

right, enough of that. "what the fuck is that song?"

let's lay down the law early on - i love fifth harmony. to those who don't know, they're a girl band formed on the usa x factor i think? they're all about 13 or something (research tells me closer to 17-18) but their voices are on another level. yes, i've no doubt a creepy old man turning the "autotune" up to 10 helps but they shit out some guilty pleasure a class pop. they released an EP in america some time ago called "better together" which consisted of 5 bubblegum pop songs about being young and happy and sad and spanish. it was good. then they went all dutty and released "bo$$" which is still, to this day, iconic. now they're trying to break the UK with their new song "sledgehammer" which is a) written by meghan trainor b) not so bubble-gummy or dutty and c) really good. it's the kind of pop you don't have to think about, especially after a half day of emotional intensity xo