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05/19/2019

It’s Fine to Be a Misfit

Lidia describes misfit as a person who cannot fit in with the rest of the people. In other words, a person who fits in badly. Lidia is a writer one of the books that she has written is the chronology of water. In the book, she describes her life as a swimmer, (Yuknavitch, 2016). She grew up in a very abusive household. She was in a staycation jail her two marriages had failed and she had failed in college twice. One of her tough moments was when her daughter died the day that she was born. She says that she has not overcome the story of her daughter’s death.

Lidia encourages people who have experienced failure or loss that they are beautiful and that they should not be afraid to share their experience with others.

She began a memoir a decade ago and she published it in 2011. Her story won the literary award, (Glazier, 2017). She went to New York and had the privilege to stay in one of the luxurious hotels.  She ate in the restaurant and the cost of the meals was higher than her monthly rent. While on the trip she was privileged to meet three of her favourite women who were writers. She felt like an impostor. Even after meeting the three women she did not make any book deals. She went home with napkins that proved that she was from New York.

She further says that misfit does not know how to say yes or to say what they really want even though it is in front of them. It becomes a sham felling or wanting something that is good. Lidia has written two books and is now a teacher as well as a mother, (Gall, 2017). She speaks to some of her fellow misfit who was in the room and tells them that most cultures use the myth to follow your dreams. In her speech, she says that it is called a hero’s journey. Although she preferred the misfit’s myth.

Everyone has the ability to reinvent themselves and that is everyone’s beauty. You can be a survivor of abuse, a drunk addict, an ex-con, or a homeless person. You can lose a husband or loss money and worst of all lose a child which can be painful, (Hollis, 2017). You can also lose marbles. You can be a failure or standing at the dead center but you are still beautiful and your story needs to be heard by others. You are a phenomenal and rare misfit. In the speech, she is encouraging the people who have failed or gone through a more terrible experience. In addition, it is also important to know that everyone’s story is different, (Yuknavitch, 2017).

Reference

Hollis, C. W. (2017). Thinking Back through Virginia Woolf: Woolf as Portal in Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children. Virginia Woolf and Heritage, 251.

Gall, A. (2017). The other side of burning. Poets & Writers Magazine, 45(3), 30-37.

Glazier, S. (2017). The Water Will Hold You: On Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water. In Reading and Writing Experimental Texts (pp. 167-187). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Yuknavitch, L. (2016). Lidia Yuknavitch: The beauty of being a misfit [video file].

Yuknavitch, L. (2017). The Misfit's Manifesto (Vol. 2). Simon and Schuster.