yup its a number ..but as mine gets larger i am so feeling my bones and joints deteriorating within me......my mind still thinks the same way tho so age hasn't effected it except for memory.... maybe that's why it is hard to get a fix on age in here....online relationships can bridge the age gaps...real life is physical making the age thing a factor. many ppl are shocked when they meet me ..im evidently nothing like i act.... act my age ..don't think so... i don't even know what that means