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age differences don't have to be determining of a relationship. I find that large age differences at a young age can be more relevant. In your case, and particularly because he is the younger one, it seems to me like this may not work out. If he was a little older, I'd say your chances were better. I don't want to generalize but I think it's safe to say that a man at 23 is seldom ready to settle down. So this is not an easy situation.
If you are this anxious about the attention he is not giving you, then you may become needy and that won't be attractive to him. I don't advocate playing games but maybe you should try to calm down and get on with your own things. Remember you have only known him for a short time and you may be sugar coating the situation. If you can remain calm and be patient, maybe it will work out. And if not, you still have yourself and your own life. Remember that and you'll be fine.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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