9.22.2016

Lidia Yuknavitch: The beauty of being a misfit


TED 2016
Lidia Yuknavitch: The beauty of being a misfit (video, script)
There's a place there where you are. You have the ability to reinvent yourslve endlessly.
Summary
The speaker called herself a misfit. The word "misfit " means a person who sort of missed fitting or who fits in badly or a person who is poorly adapted to new situations and environments. Then Misfit people like her don't always know how to hope, how to say yes, how to choose the big thing. Even if they're in front of them, they feel ashamed to want to be happy but be in there with the people they admire.
However, she notices that the radiance falls on all of even them who were misfits, all people are needed with each other. There's a place there where they are. They can say what they want thing, and want to be happy. They might be a failure for their choices. However, even at the moment of it, right then, they are beautiful. They can reinvent themselves again and again. They don't know it yet, but they have the ability to reinvent themselves endlessly. There's something that only them can do. They are the only one in there and all people have their stories.
Words in this story
radiance / glory, brilliance.
swanky / very expensive and fashionable, in a way that is intended to attract people's attention and admiration.
chronology / the arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence.

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