hey yeppers, you're a good lookin "kid" with a low hairline, get your self a cute girl (if you haven't already) that doesn't care about how much hair is on your head or how much $$ is in your wallet and you'll be alright. (Sorry to hijack thread)
Finding a woman like that, that you yourself are physically attracted to can a times be a challenge. In all honesty, a lot of us will sit and say, hair and money don't matter, why are women so superficial - but how many of us would date a woman that is say 50-100 lbs overweight? If a woman is not physically attracted to me because of my hairloss, I don't fault her on it, because there are some women that I am not physically attracted to either. I just move on to the next.
In regards to baldness, I can agree that it is worse losing your hair young. I started at 22 and I can relate to the others as being the "only one" in the room with visible hairloss. It's disheartening and plays a number with your emotions. Now at 30, I am a lot more comfortable with it, it still bothers me, but now that there are men my age with the same issue and in the same position, it is reassuring as you are becoming once again the, "average" as opposed to a minority.
When you are 22 years old and are walking through a shopping mall with visible thinning you will get quite a few glances up at your hair. People see a young face with thinning hair and take notice as it is abnormal. Where as a man in his 30's or 40's with the same amount of thinning will blend into a crowd and no one will really look or take any notice.
It will always bother me, but I would have loved to have an extra 10 years with a full head of hair. If I just began losing now, it would be great (not really but you know what I mean)...as I would be 40 by the time I'm close to being bald. I will agree though that it is not an experience I would ever enjoy or like to repeat regardless of age, but I do think it would be a lot easier to accept as you get a little older and have many others around you the same age dealing with the same problem.
I don't know, it's sort of like the old saying, "better to have love and lost then not loved at all", only, it would be better to have a full head of hair in your 20's and lose it then to not have hair at all.