A Javanese
Prince who married an Iranian Princess
Raden
Roro Laila smart woman environment engineer
Raden
Arto, Javanese prince, diplomat...& his family
Raden
Mas Suryo-di-Puro, senior diplomat (Granddad)
Javanese
Weddings reflect parents lifetime roles
A
King immune from bullets and cannons
Some
of the Iranian Family & Friends
Hobbies
for Bikers (1,000cc+) sports & cruisers
Indonesia
World's 4th largest country
List
of International Schools
In
Cyrus' Memory
suryo@suryo.net
The writer is a Member of
and a former journalist
& editor with the AFP & Antara News Agencies in London, Paris,
& Koln in the mid-'60s
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Some
Great Things About Getting Older • With Music
Tracks
“Getting Old” contributed By Marcia Sabetti, a
former Washingtonian living in Durango – Mother of two children
in their mid-20s. • Commentary by R. Adji Suryo-di-Puro – Father
since 1965 & Grandparent since 1995. Jakarta, 28th. January, 2000 •
Jakarta,
Indonesia...world's 5th. largest city... in the world's 4th. largest nation...where
is it? Never heard of it? Please click here
SOME
GREAT THINGS ABOUT GETTING OLDER
* Finally you can eat dinner at 4:00
* Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.
* Kidnappers are not very interested in you – unless you are filthy
rich.
* It’s harder for sexual harassment charges to stick (but don’t
mind doing it)
* If you've never smoked, you can start now and it won't have
time to hurt you.
* People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
* Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can’t remember
them either.
* Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size.
* Your eyes won't get much worse.
* Things you buy now won’t wear out.
* No one expects you to run into a burning building.
* There’s nothing left to learn the hard way.
* Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service.
* In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
* You are smarter, much smarter, at over 50 than when you were
only 25, and.
From the over 50 ... the facts
* Don’t knock the elders, because when they were your age they
probably looked as good or better, were as strong or stronger than you
are now, and probably had the guts to do things you only dream about –
like being a James Bond field operative,
fighting the East German intelligence and Soviet KGB – with all the inherent
dangers of being shot at and maimed, blown up and killed, or tortured and
imprisoned for 20 years, and getting your girl just like in the James Bond
movies.
* If elders look decrepit now, you are lucky if you can look that good
when you’re their age.
* ... And finally, don’t forget ... you, too, will become old.
For
fellow elders whose spirit are young and have life left in them, click
here for some music that reflect your youthful spirit² • Or
this one for a little bit slower one² • Or
an After Midnight?¹**º•
And
All of Me • The cool Moorea³**•
How
about your Days of Wine & Roses. We all had them? • Click
here if the first one was not fast enough³**
Please
click this line for Cyrus' other 30-plus music tracks that he and I used
to play and accompany on CDs & tape*
³Sequenced
(played & arranged) by Devian,
a 30-year Indonesian graduate from the Berkely School of Music & used
with permission • º
Sequenced
by Jan Halsema &
used with permission • *Wherever possible and available permission was
requested from their composers • ** Used with permission • All music tracks
are available for non-commercial use.
What Advantages Are There In Being
Old – aside from the above?
For one thing, the olderster has seen it all – compared to
when he was a younger. That’s why s/he doesn’t get as excited as
when s/he was younger. It was a big deal to go to one’s first dance, but
no big deal after one has attended all the cocktail parties in town and
frequented the town’s discos.
True, physical abilities decline but replacing that is experience.
Experience means not bumping your head against walls, nor have
your legs blown off figuratively-speaking in the mine fields of life’s
hard knocks because the oldster has bumped his/her head and suffered the
consequences of hard knocks all too often. That is why in Asian societies,
and indegenous Indian societies in North and South Americas, its elders
are always highly regarded and even venerated.
And finally ...
The old folks have been there ... and
went through it. But you have never been there.
About parenting: Grand Parents do
not
spoil their grandchildren. Click
here to continue and read the comments by Bryan at
www.igrandparents.com
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