Your mid-20s are a weird time. You’ve reached the age where you want to hit the breaks on this whole growing up thing and you actually CAN wait for your birthday. No one really knows how to do your mid-twenties right, so where do you turn to know you aren’t screwing everything up? You could browse some articles like “26 things you learn as a 26-year-old,” but those things sound like a washed-up motivational speaker. You want the real dirt, you want someone to throw you the facts.

You want Cody Ko.

If you aren’t already familiar with YouTube influencer and rapper on the rise Cody Ko, then strap in. Cody is the chillest bro you’ll never meet. His specialty? Telling it like it is. Cody recently posted a video where he reacted to what people have posted online about being 26 but he cut out all the bullsh*t.

Here is a list of thoughts all of us have had in our mid-twenties told by Cody Ko.

1. “26 is a weird f*cking age, it really is.”

2. “It’s the age where people start giving up on their dreams a little bit, not in a bad way just kind of like, ‘well now I’m 26 maybe I’m not going to be the lead guitarist in a death metal band, maybe I’ll just be an accountant and that’s totally fine.’”

You really want to think money doesn’t matter, but then you realize that you have an expensive lifestyle.

3. “I’ve always kind of wondered when pimples were going to go away.”

Seriously no one talks about pimples after high school but they are the real deal. It’s like they get less frequent, but way angrier.

4. “Like half my friends are getting married and the other half are just so completely single just trying to f*ck everything that moves.”

5. “At 11:00 a.m. I’m like I’m definitely going out tonight and then 5 PM comes and I’m like: the only way I’d be able to make it out of the house right now is if someone force-fed me Adderall and mainlined Four Loko."

I relate to this more than anything else, my friends know not to expect my attendance at events that start at midnight. New Years is really the only exception.

6. “I wonder constantly about how much money other people have in their bank accounts… Money to me is just like how much do people have? Am I doing good?”

OK, no one will admit it but we all have no idea what we should be doing with money. Right? RIGHT?

7. “Everyone you talk to that’s this age goes, ‘Oh you know the wedding thing…’”

I hope millennials kill asking people when their “big day” is. There isn’t some landmark age when and IF marriage should happen, like getting your driver's license or something.

8. “I’m over the flats that give me blisters, no more of those. Give me New Balance baby, let's go speed walking with my gals.”

Comfort over everything, I hate wearing shoes anyway.

9. “The day I walk into a bar and say ‘it’s too loud in here,’ shoot me in the f*cking face… That’s WHY I go to bars so that I don’t have to f*cking talk to people. I’m not 80 years old.”

10. “I still get ID’d and that pisses me off because it’s just inconvenient.”

Maybe I will stop being ID’d when I’m 40 years old.

11. “Everyone doing anything cool or anyone successful is way younger than you. Post Malone is 22.”

This is a thought that continues to haunt me, but like congrats to all those children I guess?

12. “I don’t even know how to hold a baby… they’re all like oily you know what I mean… are they? I don’t know. I haven’t held a baby in... ever.”

In my head babies are like owning a hot tub; it would be nice like twice a year but they cost you so much money and are hell to clean.

13. “I’m not even close to knowing who I am.”

14. "It’s not all bad though."

Cody ends with this simple motivating thought. He doesn’t have any real evidence of why it’s not that bad, but neither do I, Just know it’s not all bad.

You can find Cody's original video here. You're welcome.