Is Age Really Just A Number???

Is age really just a number? I ask seeing as how some (including myself) like to point the finger and judge those who occasionally rob the cradle. I've always thought it was somewhat sick when a guy or especially a female hooked up with someone young enough to be their child or sibling. But as I've experience life, I find that putting down widely age gapped relationships down is really overrated. For instance, there was this ex of mine that was 16 and had/has a girlfriend in her 20s. I thought this was utterly insane and sick. But I guess that was just the jealousy in me...that's another story for another time. But anyway as I stalked her myspace (lol), I'd just stare at her and wonder what the hell does she want with a little boy, you know? Well although our relationship has ended, theirs has managed to keep going. And after the jealousy faded away, I started to realize that maybe it isn't a mental unbalance in the brain that brings decade differenced people together. Maybe they can actually click. Anyway speaking of my ex sort of brings the flip side to it all in it as well. You know, the "older man with younger chick normality". Ah, the old double standard of society. It's funny how I speak of it with such cold words when that's exactly how I saw the relationship of my ex with her, as utter sickness in the head on both parts. But like I said before as I've experienced life I can say I sort of get them in terms of omitting the age difference and really focusing on what's important....the connection. I once tried my luck with a guy 8 or 9 years older than me. Needless to say, we had one date and it was over (atleast it was when he was trying to talk to my little sister, even though we weren't going out...once again, another story for another day). I realized that things would never work out because we couldn't hold a conversation. It was just the outside which now makes me realize what he really wanted with a girl 9 years younger than him like me. Anywho, I find that it all boils down to connection. And no, I'm not saying that a "relationship" between a 40 year old and a 12 year old is fine (Now that's sick..). But as I was saying, the 26 year old and I couldn't hold a decent conversation. With no communication, we we're as good as Britney Spears' first marriage. We didn't connect at all. All of our interests were totally different and we were both at different stages in our lives. But then there are the few that can withstand. The few that can click, you know the kind that can finish each others' thoughts etc. But it all leads to the conclusion of Aaliyah's song was write; Age ain't nothin' but a number. It's all in the basis of connection and/or communication.