Twenty-two is not too late to pick up guitar. Your fingers don’t check your ID.

Skills do not keep a calendar. Muscle and memory answer to hours of practice, not to how old you were when the hours started. What actually stings is being a visible beginner next to people who started at nine, and that sting fades faster than you expect.

Name the thing you keep saying you should have picked up earlier. Give it twenty minutes tonight, badly, with the door shut if that helps. Count days rather than how good you sound, at least for the first month.