I've Got A Girl Crush

Love comes with familiarity and over the course of the past few years a woman has been haunting me.

Her image shines in seemingly surprising places, her poems play on my feeds, and her character is the topic of many conversations. Her name is Frida, and I have a girl crush.

Frida is a woman of strength, mystery, and vitality for life. And, baby, those are characteristics that will get my blood pumping.

Frida's strength does not lie in her physical abilities, but in her persistence and bravery in enduring and embracing pain. This endurance was forged out the fact that Frida was ill much of her life. She contracted polio as a young girl which left her with a compromised immune system as well unstable balance due to a shortened leg. Then, at the age of fifteen she was in a horrific bus accident that shattered several bones in her body and left her unable to bear children. Her early life was riddled with suffering, yet she used that pain to transform her into a mental column of strength even when her own spinal column was compromised. Furthermore, she used her pain as an inspiration and topic of her paintings. It is through her art that we share in her pain and find the salve for our own sufferings.  Whether those sufferings are a chronic illness, an addiction, or a mental anguish. 

Frida's strength was something that grew throughout her tumultuous life, but I think that Frida was a mysterious anomaly since her birth. She was reclusive, yet mischievous. She would hide away from her peers due to being bullied, yet she acted out boldly which resulted her in expulsion from school. She embraced her femininity through the elaborate decorating of her body through her long and loud gowns as well as her bold jewelry and flower crowns.  Yet, she also loved to wear men's suits and upset the status quo just because she felt like it. She fell passionately in love with the elephant of a man Diego Rivera who was neither attractive nor near her age. Yet, she is well-known for engaging in passionate love affairs with some of the world's most beautiful women.

Frida is a woman you can not pin down. You can not figure her out. You can not find the meaning in her mystery because her mysterious nature is merely a woman who does what she pleases for the love of life. And man, I love that. 

Frida was a woman of passion. She felt strongly about expression, love, beauty, and philosophy. Everything she did was dipped in vibrant colors. Her heart was aflame and you can see it in her eyes. She is fully alive and unapologetic about who she is and she gives zero fucks about what you think about it. And, thats what captures you. The untamed wildness of a free soul. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what sexiness is....a free soul. 

So, I've got a girl crush...and now, I hope you do too.