What is age anyway?

I don't feel my age. I don't even know if I act it. I mean, my birthday is fast approaching and these are the sorts of things one thinks about when that time comes around....[which it does far too god damn quickly lately!].

What IS age? A number. Yet a number which seems to imply so much.....let us assume one is asked "How old are you?" and from the information given the questioner can assume so many things about the person they have asked. What point in their life they 'should' be at, whether or not they are married, have children, have a career, own a home......

Maybe I am one of those rebellious people.....perhaps harking back to my antagonistic youth....but I say screw numbers! Screw implications! What if I FEEL 23? What if I act 16? What if I am 41?

Does it [should it] matter?