22 and afraid of how old i am?

I know.... KIDS these days.

Ok... well back to what I was doing.... screaming at the neighbourhood kids who walk on my lawn.

Definitely and it only gets worse, though it's different from men and women and it depends on how well settled you are in life. I'd say that the clock starts ticking at different ages for most people, depending on the situation. In life it's never too late to do anything. Saying having 22 years old is synonym of being old is a blasphemy to older guys. Of course that we all want to be seventeen forever, but it just doesn't happen that way, life can actually get better with time as you get wiser and wealthier.

isn't it weird how women are supposedly in their primes in their early to mid twenties, but for guys their primes extend into their thirties, when most people would consider women of similar ages to be all washed up.

The prime of your life at 22? I believe if you ask older people and they would say the prime of life is from their 30's and 40's.

I didn't freak out when I was 40, it was in fact a surprisingly good year for me. Maybe some of it was that for so many years, I heard so much "oh no! 40!" so much, that I expected the worse. And it wasn't. It was also a time period when I finally got over some problems I had previously, so it was a pretty good year. This year at 42 though, that's been another matter. I've been out of work too though. Physically, I have began to notice this year for first time how climbing stairs is starting to get more of a pain, I pull muscles more easily than before, and I tend to eat something that gives me "trouble" more often than before. And the "trouble" hits me worse than before when I get it.

omg. Well at least we have this little support group lol