The reason why older women still seemed intimidating to me at 22 but not now at 25. What do you feel?

So yeah in 2023 when i was 22 and just started with my MBA, i was still a bit shy near women in general. Older women definitely seemed intimidating at the time. Like it was hard for me to imagine even talking normally with a woman over 30 let alone 40s. I was mainly comfortable with women my age or closer to my age like my crush Anshika who was also 22, my close female friend Soniya who was 22/23, later Akansha who was 21-23 etc. Even at 23 especially at starting it kinda felt the same too. My posts about these MBA crushes definitely had crying emojis and all like i was missing them. Thats because i was still shy and had less experience with female interactions so older women seemed intimidating.

But 24 was when i started getting comfortable with older women and now as a 25 year old, i am fully comfortable talking to older women as i talked with many foreign expat women in our city Bangalore who are also in their 30s and 40s and they treat me like an equal adult and i treat them too like an equal adult. So you can notice my posts dont have too many crying emojis now as I am a confident man now. I would only such emojis when i am genuinely sad. So what do you feel?