As Dick Van Dyke approaches his 100th birthday next month, the Hollywood legend says his longevity owes less to genetics and far more to a deliberate choice to embrace life with joy, resilience, and a refusal to dwell on hardship.
In a reflective personal essay with The Sunday Times published on Nov. 13, the actor wrote that he has made it to 99 “in no small part because I have stubbornly refused to give into the bad stuff in life: failures and defeats, personal losses, loneliness and bitterness, the physical and emotional pains of ageing.”
