I hate to reveal my age as i hate to be called old

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Hi! Friends You know today i am going to tell whats happening here with me. Its one of my weakness when people ask me about my age. I hate to reveal my age because when i tell my age they treat me like old and they do tell me to get matured. I hate to get there advice. They really get on my nerves so whenever someone ask my age i lie them though i hate to lie. I am Ratnadeep from India. I am 29 years old male. I look like a teenager or around 19 to 20 years old. I respect each and everyone, I look like a school boy because of my spritly nature and i am very enthusiastic in whatever i do. Besides i also do feel like a 13 year old. You cannot say that i am childish. I don't feel like i am 29 and going to be 30 soon. I never pretend nor do i act to look like a teenager. Its the way i see and take life as. Everyone in my family or my friend on my hometown or the people i meet know that i am very young from within. Professionally speaking i was not that successful like my classmates.They might look old and very matured but they achieved a good job with very high salary. I was unemployed for a long time so 2 years ago i got a job in a call centre in New Delhi (India). As i was enjoying my job and everyone was loving the way i was working with a lot of zeal and enthusiasm. Finally my team leader asked my age in front of my colleagues, i told my actual age, you know there reaction....... They told me you look so young and then some of the fellows and the girls were telling me when will you be getting married and why you are like this. why don't you get a little matured on your thinking. If i would have been your age i would have get married and i would been in a good position on any organisation. You should take your life seriously. Literally most of them used to tell me to act like my age whenever i am happy. So i left the organisation when i got a good job in IBM. Now that i have joined IBM i was enjoying my job like anything. One day my new colleagues asked about my age, i told them my real age. Though all of them were surprised, but one of my colleagues accepted me as the way i am. Though others didn't tell me anything i could understand they thought that i am a loser to start a career with them. So whenever someone asks me about my age from now onwards i feel so awkward and i don't know how to react. In my office there are as many as 1000 people working on my shift and i happen to be quite popular with everyone especially with the younger peoples as they relate to me. My colleagues tell me that most of the people on my building knows me and whenever they meet me they like to talk to me. They say i would be a good PR. Yesterday one of my colleagues who was having his dinner on his table. I met him and greeted him. He suddenly erupted and told me to act like my age and don't think that you are so young and act like a matured person. Don't try to hang around with those young fellows and feel that you are a young too. I was angry with his remarks and i told him that i will be the way i am and i don't want to act like a matured person by acting lke i am very reserved. Thats the thing which i am scared now a days whenever someone asks me about my age. Its a question on which i don't like to answer as i don't feel i am 29 and i still think i am still a boy, learning a lot of things from this world. I laugh out loud like a school kid and i enjoy it. Still i don't have a clue should i reveal my real age or should i lie them and how to react whenever someone asks my age.