A freind sees a photo of me and notes kindly that I look ninety. As Baudrillard remarks, it's not our own faces that disappoint and betray us, our faces to ourselves always look reassuringly normal (he evidently had never woken up with a mush full of UDI of a morning...) and that it's those of others that mark out the passage of time.
Cosmologically though - everything and everyone is the same age. Everything is made up of atoms that came into existence at exactly the same time. Everything and everyone is made up of these basic unchanging elements. Thus, time and age are human creations designed in part, to help us take the piss out of eachother every now and then. 
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