RE: Is age just a number...?

Age is an integer, or a string if you use language instead.of mathematics to describe it.

However, your age, from a biological context very much has an impact on your quality.of life.

When I was at the gym, using the cable row machines, a bloke asked to work in with me. We got to chatting. He was 61.

He told me that he'd been working out all of his life, and that he had won body building contests in his youth.

He approached the world with a (literal) strength and energy that only someone who could be described as biologically young only could.

We chatted about physique as we exchanged use of the machine, and well, while I won't be winning any body building contests (and I'm beyond my own youth as well) his encouragement, confidence and vitality were totally inspirational.

You don't get that sort of generational connection by sitting in the lobby drinking coffee.