There’s a lot happening in the world right now — from long lines at TSA that make travel feel impossible to rising gas prices and conflicts overseas. And it’s only March.
I vote for a spring break. No, not just for your kids, for us. As Q1 comes to a close and the doldrums of winter seem behind us, the younger set isn’t the only one who deserves a respite from all of this. Professionals also need a seasonal reset, too.
So, how do you take a corporate spring break? Well, I’m glad you asked. Here are a few tips I’ve rounded up from our coverage at Business Insider to take a guilt-free moment to recharge.
Put it on your calendar: If you’re like me, if it’s not blocked off, it’s not happening. So go to your calendar now (don’t worry, I’ll wait) and block off a few days.
Keep it short: Fine, I get it. Your to-do list is ever-growing, but two to three days count.
You don’t have to go far: Yes, spring break once meant partying on a beach. Reframe what a break could mean for you, whether it’s a staycation or a quick jaunt to a nearby state.
Set boundaries: Set your OOO. Communicate your handoff and actually log off. There’s no point if you’re keeping one eye on Slack.
Here’s to our own spring break. You know, just reimagined.
Flying during a partial government shutdown is like playing a game of TSA line roulette.
A shortage of security agents at Houston’s Hobby Airport and New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport led to extraordinary security queues that stretched up to three hours on Sunday. The general line in Houston snaked into the parking garage.
Airports in San Juan, Atlanta, and Charlotte have similarly told travelers to budget extra time for staffing-related security delays after many TSA agents — deemed “essential” and required to work without pay during the shutdown — didn’t show up. Wait times at these airports were under 30 minutes on Thursday, but that could change with little notice as the busy spring break season goes into full swing.
Agents are expected to receive their first $0 paycheck this weekend, raising the likelihood that more fed-up agents will call in sick.
Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst and the president of Atmosphere Research Group, told Business Insider that, for now, the TSA chaos appears localized to select airports where mass callouts collided with peak spring break travel. The US Travel Association estimated that a record 171 million people will fly in March and April.
Most other airports across the US are operating normally. Houston’s larger airport, George Bush Intercontinental, reported wait times as short as a few minutes Thursday morning; major hubs like New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, and Dallas-Fort Worth were reporting 20 minutes or less.
Still, this hasn’t made the situation any less confusing.
Harteveldt said it’s likely the chaos will spread to other airports the longer security officers work without pay — with the coming missed paycheck likely motivating even more callouts, as seen during the full government shutdown in October and early November.
“We know from the last government shutdown that it’s difficult for TSA employees to work for a sustained period without any income,” he said. “So these individuals calling out or leaving to work a supplementary job that will provide some type of pay is completely understandable.”
Here are tips if you’re headed to the airport as the shutdown drags on.
Budget extra time
Between the partial shutdown and higher fuel prices due to the war in Iran, Harteveldt advised that travelers who haven’t yet booked should consider postponing until things are “calmer and more predictable.”
Consider taking a train or driving if you must travel. If you must fly, be sure to budget extra time for security, whether the airport is bottlenecked or running normally.
A TSA agent shortage caused by the partial government shutdown led to long lines at airport security.
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“Short-staffed airports may be less diligent in updating security wait times, so the 15- or 30-minute waits you see online may not be accurate,” Harteveldt said.
Houston Hobby Airport on Tuesday told passengers to arrive three hours early for domestic flights and four hours early for international flights due to staffing shortages at TSA.
Sally French, a travel analyst at NerdWallet, said she usually recommends travelers use the MyTSA mobile app to check security lines ahead of time, but warned it may not be accurate because it is not being updated during the shutdown.
Get in the fast lane
Travelers should check whether their ticket and the airport allow them to use security lanes that bypass the general line.
“If you can opt into the TSA’s Touchless ID, that may be faster, but it and other expedited lines still may be closed during the shutdown,” Harteveldt said.
Touchless ID still requires an agent present to manage and monitor the station, but the ID process is faster.
Charlotte Douglas International Airport
Touchless ID is a voluntary system that allows enrolled passengers to enter security using facial recognition instead of showing an ID and boarding pass to a TSA agent. Eligible travelers must have a passport, an active airline profile, and be a TSA PreCheck member.
However, the feature is only available to passengers of participating airlines at certain major airports and may be unavailable during the shutdown.
French said people with certain airline status or who bought higher-fare tickets should check if they have access to expedited security lanes.
Some airlines allow people to buy separate access to speedier lines: United’s “Premiere Access,” for example, starts at $24 and includes an exclusive security line, though the perk is subject to availability.
Invest in TSA PreCheck
French said TSA PreCheck is among the most reliable ways to get through security faster: “I always recommend applying for TSA PreCheck; so many credit cards offer it as a benefit in that they cover your application fee.”
TSA PreCheck — which allows passengers to keep their toiletries and laptops in their bags, wear their shoes and jackets, and use a metal detector instead of full-body scanners — costs about $76 for a five-year membership.
Houston Hobby Airport made headlines on Sunday when the general security line reached three hours. PreCheck could be a saving grace.
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It requires proof of US citizenship or residency, passing a background check, and completing an in-person interview.
Credit cards like the Chase Sapphire Reserve and the Capital One Venture offer PreCheck reimbursement. The quicker line typically requires fewer agents thanks to the less intensive screening — and it’s still open at most airports despite DHS briefly closing it earlier in the shutdown.
CLEAR, a privately owned security program available at most major airports, is another option. Enrolled travelers verify their identity using biometrics and are then escorted to the front of the line — similar to Touchless ID. It’s $209 annually.
Don’t bet on compensation from your airline
If long TSA lines make you miss your flight, airlines will often rebook you on the next available flight.
But that’s largely as much as airlines offer — the shutdown is out of their control, so any hotel or meal vouchers would be a goodwill gesture. Still, it’s good to ask.
Travel insurance and credit-card trip-delay coverage also usually won’t help, since they only cover events like bad weather or mechanical problems. Staffing issues aren’t always a covered reason. Passengers can also ask their airline about standby or refunds, but policies vary.
Bottom line: give yourself extra time and know your airline’s rules before traveling this month.
Late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs had a variety of powerful friends, and they’re honoring his legacy by sharing their recipes for success.
To celebrate his birthday on Tuesday, the Steve Jobs Archive released two collections of letters from business leaders, designers, writers, and more.
The entries were originally distributed to 2023 and 2024 fellows of the SJA program for young creators, and they’ve been compiled into two volumes titled “Letters to a Young Creator.”
The volumes feature the words of advice from tech trailblazers like Tim Cook and Jony Ive, to successful businessmen Bob Iger and Arthur Rock, to creative minds like Pixar’s Pete Docter and filmmaker Jon Chu.
Some wove their lessons together with personal anecdotes about their relationships with Jobs, while others laid out lists to aid in the creative process.
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Tuesday would’ve been Jobs’ 71st birthday. The former Apple CEO died in 2011 after living with pancreatic cancer for a number of years. Jobs became known for his inspirational public speeches and quotes shared by those who worked closely with him.
Volume one of “Letters To a Young Creator” ends with an email Jobs sent to himself in 2010. In the note, he reflected on how his appreciation for human creativity.
“I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being,” Jobs wrote.
In volume two, Jobs referred to himself in a 1984 quote as a student.
“Don’t take it all too seriously,” he concluded.
Here’s what his friends had to say about pursuing success as a young creator.
Tim Cook posed one question to young creators
Apple CEO Tim Cook took over for Jobs in 2011.
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Cook took over as CEO in 2011 after Jobs stepped down to focus on his health. Before his death, the pair worked closely together at Apple. Cook has been with the company since he met Jobs in 1998.
In his 2024 letter, Cook described the fateful meeting that led to a decadeslong career at one of the biggest tech companies in the world. He said he was warned against taking a job at Apple as the company had been struggling around that time. One conversation with Jobs changed everything.
“I had never met someone with so much passion and vision,” Cook wrote. “I knew I had to be a part of it.”
His advice to young creators facing similar decisions on their future career paths was to ask themselves one question.
“And so when you imagine your future, and the winding path that is laid before you, remember the question you should ask is not ‘What will happen?’ but ‘Who will I be when it does?'” Cook said.
Jony Ive said that Jobs liked to focus on ideas
Former chief design officer of Apple Jony Ive worked closely with Jobs.
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Ive, Apple’s former design chief, worked with Jobs for nearly 15 years. The pair would often have lunch together as they came up with ideas that led to successful products like the iPhone.
Ive wrote about his relationship with Jobs.
“His insatiable curiosity was not limited or distracted by his knowledge or expertise, nor was it casual or passive,” Ive wrote. “It was ferocious, energetic, and restless.”
Ive and Jobs connected over their shared curiosity. He encouraged people to be like Jobs and show their admiration for humans by being creators themselves. According to Ive, Jobs was focused on ideas rather than the problems that come along with them.
“Ideas are fragile. If they were resolved, they would not be ideas, they would be products. It takes determined effort not to be consumed by the problems of a new idea,” Ive wrote.
Pete Docter listed tips that help his creative process along
Pete Docter directed several Pixar movies.
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Docter is the chief creative officer at Pixar, which Jobs owned before Apple’s comeback. In recent years, Docter has been vocal about the intersection of tech and animation, saying artificial intelligence won’t fully replace humans in filmmaking.
He’s known for directing hit animated movies like “Monsters, Inc.,” “Up,” “Inside Out,” and “Soul.”
Docter laid out nine tips that he uses in his own creative process. Here are three of them:
Start with whatever shows up. Go as far as you can on that initial confidence and enthusiasm.
Start fast and rough; worry about details later.
Each day, start by pretending you’ve never seen it before, with no expectations or preconceptions. Take it in as your audience will: see what it is, not what you HOPE it is. Then change or add to make it better.
Bob Iger said to take risks
Disney CEO Bob Iger led the acquisition of Pixar in 2006.
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Iger has had two stints as Disney’s CEO, starting in 2005. The media giant acquired Pixar in 2006. Jobs became a member of Disney’s board of directors as part of the deal.
In true Disney fashion, Iger wrote about “magic and wonder” in his letter to creators. He remarked that creativity can’t be reduced to math or science.
Being risk-averse, he said, is the “death of creativity.”
“Second-guessing creative decisions is a perilous endeavor. Learn from creative mistakes, and never second-guess why things were made,” Iger wrote. “Instead, ask how they could have been made better.”
Arthur Rock said it’s all about who you keep around
Rock is an iconic Silicon Valley investor behind Intel, Xerox, and Apple. The 99-year-old wrote his 2025 letter about what makes a good leader.
“A good leader chooses good people,” he said.
Execution outweighs ideas, according to Rock, and finding people who can execute is essential. It’s the traits that money can’t buy, like “fire in the belly,” that Rock learned to identify throughout his decades as a venture capitalist.
“You want people who know what they can do, and do it. Even more important: You want people who know what they don’t know,” Rock said.
Traveling in a group can be a challenge, and confusing airline policies can make the experience even more of an ordeal. For adults, being separated on a flight is an inconvenience. But for families with young children or caregivers of travelers with special needs, sitting apart on the plane can be a crisis.
For many years, families have favored Southwest Airlines for its open seating policy, which allows travelers to choose their own seats in boarding order. But Southwest switched to assigned seating on January 27 after more than 50 years of flexible seating, joining virtually every other commercial airline. Moving forward, all Southwest passengers will have designated seats and board the plane accordingly.
If sitting together on the plane is important for your family, here’s how to ensure you always get seats together.
What to know about family seating policies on US airlines
Concerns about families being separated on planes have grown so common that federal regulators have taken notice. In 2024, the Department of Transportation proposed a rule prohibiting US airlines from charging parents additional fees to sit next to children under 13. While that proposal has not yet become law, it highlights how significant the issue has become for travelers.
For now, airline policies vary. The DOT maintains an airline family seating dashboard summarizing family travel policies across 10 major US carriers. Alaska, American, Frontier, Hawaiian, and JetBlue guarantee family seating for eligible children at no additional cost, while Allegiant, Delta, Southwest, Spirit, and United do not.
Select your preferred seats when booking your flights
The simplest and most reliable way to sit together is to choose your seats when you purchase your tickets.
During the booking process, most airlines display a seat map that allows travelers to select exact locations. Take the time to click through each passenger on the reservation and assign seats individually. Tools like SeatMaps.com can help you get an idea of the aircraft layout and choose seats with desirable features like extra legroom or window views.
The author recommends choosing seats when you book your trip to ensure everyone is seated together.
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Some airlines automatically block adjacent seats when minors are included on a reservation, while others attempt to make adjustments closer to departure. Reviewing these policies in advance can help you choose an airline and avoid surprises after the fact.
Pro tip: If you’ve chosen an airline that charges for advanced seat assignments, you may be able to recoup some of those costs with a good travel credit card that comes with annual travel credits toward eligible expenses. You may also avoid seat selection fees if you have elite status with that airline or if you purchase higher fare-class tickets.
Book everyone on the same reservation
Whenever possible, book everyone together in one transaction. This simple step makes it much easier for customer service representatives to assist if problems arise.
Keeping all family members on a single reservation is another essential strategy for ensuring you’re seated together, unless you’re experienced travelers with very specific reasons for separating your bookings. In fact, some airlines like Alaska require you to be booked on the same reservation with your children in order to be eligible for the guaranteed seat selection policy.
Airline computer systems do not automatically recognize separate bookings as part of the same group, even when the passengers share a last name, and it’s far harder to identify seating needs or make changes across multiple reservations, especially if you need to change your flights for any reason.
Pro tip: If you’ve already purchased your flights across different reservations, a quick call to customer service can help you link them.
Don’t book basic economy fares
Low-cost basic economy tickets can be tempting, especially for larger families trying to keep travel expenses down, but these fares come with significant drawbacks that impact seating choices.
Most basic economy tickets do not allow advance seat selection, even if you’re willing to pay for the privilege. Instead, seats are assigned automatically, often at check-in, after all the higher-paying passengers have had their choice.
For parents, basic economy creates unnecessary uncertainty since you’re far more likely to end up with scattered seat assignments, especially on airlines that don’t guarantee family seating.
Pro tip: If you can’t avoid basic economy, contact your airline immediately after booking to let them know you’re traveling with minors. Some carriers will make notes on the reservation or allow you to upgrade your tickets to a fare class that offers seat selection.
Avoid layovers whenever possible
There are pros and cons for families considering connecting flights. For families with little kids, layovers can offer a chance to stretch in the airport and get some of the wiggles out.
But if it’s extremely important to you to sit together during your travels, your safest bet is to book the most direct route, especially during busy travel periods. That way, you only have one flight to worry about instead of two or even three.
Pro tip: If connecting flights are your only option, do your homework ahead of time to ensure you know which gate you’re arriving into, which gate your next flight departs from, and make sure you budget enough time to purchase food, traverse the airport, and everything else you need to do before showing up to board your flight on time.
Timing is everything: Buy early and choose off-peak travel times
Purchase your flights as early as possible to give yourself the greatest flexibility in seat selection, since the best seats get snatched up as flights fill. If you have no choice but to buy last-minute tickets, contact your airline as soon as you’ve booked your tickets to ensure they know you’re traveling with little ones.
Choosing less popular travel times can also improve your chances of finding good seats together. Flying on Christmas Day itself, for example, can often be easier than fighting the holiday travel crowds the weekend prior.
Pro tip: Many travelers avoid early-morning or red-eye flights, which tend to be less full than routes operating during peak travel hours.
Check for flight changes (even if nothing is wrong)
Even after you’ve selected your seats, it is important to monitor flight reservations periodically, even if you haven’t gotten a notification that anything is amiss. Aircraft substitutions and schedule changes are common and can disrupt previously assigned seating.
For example, if your original flight is scheduled on a larger aircraft that’s later swapped for a smaller plane, you can easily end up in different seats even though your flight number and reservations remain the same.
Checking the reservation a few times in the weeks leading up to departure lets you spot any problems early, while there’s still time to correct them. Airline mobile apps make this process easy, and often allow free adjustments if better seats become available.
Pro tip: If you start seeing inclement weather reports, you can also proactively reach out to your airline to change your flights before you are rescheduled. That way, you may be able to stay at home in comfort and peace instead of spending an exhausting day at the airport getting nowhere.
Show up early and stick to your guns (if needed)
The best-laid plans can still go awry — but having extra time on hand can make all the difference when resolving unexpected issues, such as seating changes due to last-minute equipment swaps.
Customer service agents at the airport typically have more tools at their disposal on the day of travel than phone representatives do beforehand. Calmly explaining the situation and courteously emphasizing that you are traveling with minors often prompts agents to look for workable solutions.
Make sure you read all the fine print carefully before you travel, so you know your rights. That way, you’ll know your options should a situation arise that requires immediate decision-making.
Pro tip: If a problem remains unresolved by boarding time, parents still have options. If the seats you booked aren’t available and a satisfactory solution can’t be found, you can usually request to be booked on a later flight at no additional cost or request a full refund.
When Rob Hobson, a registered nutritionist based in the UK, found out his cholesterol levels were “really high” in June, he decided to manage them through diet, focusing particularly on increasing his fiber intake.
Six months later, when he tested again, his cholesterol levels had improved, and he’d discovered four tricks that make eating more fiber easy.
Cholesterol is a fatty substance the body needs for many bodily processes, but if a person has too much LDL or “bad” cholesterol, it can form sticky plaque in their arteries, putting them at greater risk of cardiovascular disease.
To reduce cholesterol levels, the American Heart Association recommends exercising at least 150 minutes a week, quitting smoking and vaping, maintaining a healthy weight, and eating a heart-healthy diet that’s low in saturated fats and high in fiber. If these measures don’t help, then statins, a medication that lowers LDL cholesterol, will likely be prescribed.
Hobson, the author of “Unprocess Your Life” and “The Low Appetite Cookbook,” already worked out for around an hour each morning, and ate minimal ultra-processed foods and saturated fats. So he zeroed in on fiber.
Eating at least 5 to 10 grams of soluble fiber a day can help lower total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol, according to the National Lipid Association. Quinoa, oats, avocado, sweet potatoes, carrots, and chia or flax seeds are good examples.
Here are Hobson’s tips for seamlessly adding more fiber to your diet.
Eat breakfast
Hobson is a big advocate of breakfast because it lends itself to high-fiber foods such as oats, nuts, and seeds. “It’s really easy to get plenty of fiber in at that time of day,” he told Business Insider.
He has two go-to breakfasts that he eats on repeat. The first is a Greek yogurt bowl with berries, oats, and chia seeds. The second is overnight oats, which he makes with milk, protein powder, berries, honey, nuts, and seeds.
Fiber cupboard
Rob Hobson’s fiber cupboard.
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Hobson created a “fiber cupboard” in his kitchen that’s packed with fibrous foods. He challenges himself to include something from the cupboard in every meal. “Then at least you know that you are making the effort to do it,” he said.
He stocks up on lentils, beans, pulses, wholegrain pasta, brown rice, as well as snacks like fruit and nut bars, rye crackers that he likes to pair with some cottage cheese, and seaweed thins.
“I’m always rooting around for stuff, and I just think having it all in one place is so much easier,” he said.
Add pulses and legumes to your meal and put the rest into a Tupperware in the fridge
The easiest way to add fiber to a meal is to pour half a can of beans or pulses into it, Hobson said. Just one cup of black beans, for example, contains 15 grams of fiber. “You can add them to anything,” he said.
Mix some into a soup, sauce, or curry, or simply sprinkle a couple of tablespoons on top of a salad.
If you’re not using the whole can, decant the rest into a Tupperware and place it in the fridge, Hobson said. That way, they’ll stay fresher for longer and be easily accessible. “Then you don’t have to worry about, ‘I’m going to waste the rest of the tin,'” he said.
Keep the food you want to eat visible
Hobson recommends keeping the foods you want to eat in a visible spot. That way, you’re more likely to reach for them. “Nuts and seeds, always keep them on the side so they’re there,” he said.
Research suggests that the foods you keep on your countertop could impact your body weight, a factor that can influence cholesterol levels. In a 2015 study published in Sage Journals, researchers at Cornell University analyzed the visible foods on 210 countertops in New York and measured their owners’ BMIs. They found that those who had just fresh fruit visible weighed an average of 20 pounds less than those who had unhealthier snacks like candy, soda, and cereals on show.
“It’s your basic See-Food Diet — you eat what you see,” Brian Wansink, the study’s lead author, said of the findings.
But if you’re not ready to make changes to your kitchen layout, Hobson said to stick to one basic principle: “Make sure that you’ve got a bit of fiber on your plate every day with every meal,” he said.
Dick Van Dyke, the larger-than-life comedian, is now a centenarian.
Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, marking a new chapter in his already storied life and career.
He became a household name in the 1960s while starring on the CBS sitcom, “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” which won 15 Emmys and two Golden Globes. Van Dyke’s star rose even higher when he headlined “Mary Poppins” alongside Julie Andrews in 1964 and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” with Sally Ann Howes in 1968.
Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews in “Mary Poppins.”
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In addition to an extensive filmography, Van Dyke also won a Tony Award in 1961 for his role as Albert Peterson in “Bye Bye Birdie.”
As Van Dyke grew older, he has often shared insights and advice on living a long life. Here are three tips Van Dyke follows.
Van Dyke exercises three times a week
During an appearance on actor Ted Danson’s podcast, “Where Everybody Knows Your Name,” in January, Van Dyke said he exercises several times a week.
“I’ve always exercised,” Van Dyke said. “Three days a week, we go to the gym. I think that’s why I’m not stove-up like my equals.”
Danson recalled seeing Van Dyke at the gym and being impressed by his routine.
“I would go to the same gym you did, and if I got there early enough, I would see you, literally, work out on some weight machine,” Danson said. “And then, almost like you were doing circuit training, you would not walk to the next machine, you’d dance. You literally danced to the next machine.”
Danson said he later asked Van Dyke about his workout routine.
“You said you would come to the gym and work out for whatever hour, whatever it is, then you would go home. You would swim laps and then get back into bed and take a nap.”
Van Dyke said these days, he’s doing a lot of stretching and yoga.
Van Dyke stays mentally fit by watching “Jeopardy!”
Dick Van Dyke at the 2021 Kennedy Center Honors.
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In his new book, “100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist’s Guide to a Happy Life,” Van Dyke wrote that his short-term memory is “shot,” but he still has “his marbles.”
“I used to do the crossword religiously for years (in pen), and now it’s ‘Jeopardy!’ that keeps me sharp, though Arlene always has the answer before I do,” Van Dyke wrote, referring to his wife, Arlene Silver.
Van Dyke and Silver, 54, tied the knot in 2012. In his book, Van Dyke wrote that his job as an entertainer required him to have a good memory.
“For my whole career, I had to memorize pages and pages of lines and a ton of songs, backward and forward, so I was able to say or sing them without even thinking,” he wrote. “When I sing with The Vantastix, it’s often songs from shows and movies I’ve done, and those are right at the front of my brain.”
He added: “I can still pick up new material easily, too, though it might take three or four more run-throughs than it used to be before the lyrics feel like second nature.”
Van Dyke also wrote that cutting alcohol out of his diet likely played a part in his good brain health.
Keeping a positive mindset is essential, Van Dyke said
In his book, Van Dyke recalled his former roles, including a series of old men, like Mr. Dawes Sr. in “Mary Poppins.”
“I’m not playing super-old anymore. I am super old. Speaking now from this position of centenarian authenticity, I can look back on my old man roles and say that some stuff I got right,” he wrote.
Dick Van Dyke at the 76th Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
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Van Dyke wrote that it’s “frustrating to feel diminished in the world, physically and socially,” in addition to navigating the uncertainty of current global events.
However, Van Dyke said keeping a positive outlook on life is key.
“I’ve made it to one hundred, in no small part, because I have stubbornly refused to give in to the bad stuff in life: failure and defeats, personal losses, loneliness and bitterness, the physical and emotional pains of aging. Because, as I see it, to do that would be to throw in the towel on life itself.”
Instead, Van Dyke said, “for the vast majority of my years, I have been in what I can only describe as a full-on bear hug with the experience of living. Being alive has been doing life — not like a job, but rather like a giant playground.”
