Street art…Frida
girls are
as strong
as Hell
otherwise
we would all be
GONE
Photo: Mziko Lapiashvili
Unsplash
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Frida…words
we love her
read about her
buy her art
watch films about her
some travel
to visit the place
she once lived
Frida is a treasure
a role model
but
her choices
make us stop and think
she loved a man
who cheated on her constantly
her sister slept with him
everyone slept with him
gross and disgusting
as he was
apparently he had charisma
he hurt her time and time again
but she was addicted to him
and he “loved” her
with a love that gave her
nothing but pain
there was no trust
in reality
he loved only himself
a lot of Frida’s independent nature
was triggered
from her need to fight back
she had affairs
and lovers
to show Diego he wasn’t the only one
who could cheat
she forgave her sister
and blamed Diego
believing that no one
could refuse him
Frida was political
she hated American’s rich
when there were in the US
Diego slept with the women
he met at openings
parties
anywhere
Frida was in constant pain
from her childhood accident
her life wasn’t simply a struggle
it was a flat out fight
a war zone
she fought in this war
since childhood
not her mother’s favorite
too much of her own person
for that
but her father adored her
and taught her many things
about photography
about art
she was a free spirit
but if her rat bastard
of a husband
had treated her fairly
she may have been a completely
different Frida
what we see is a wounded woman
seeking revenge
and trying to survive
in a world that never made sense
love is a difficult thing
powerful
dangerous
hateful
torturous
Diego loved Frida
but he loved himself so much more
he hurt her
broke her trust
not only for him
but for other women
who Frida always saw as a threat
wanting to sleep with her husband
he cared nothing for her feelings
in anyway that mattered
she left him
he returned
in the end
she let him in
again
she died
just as she had lived
in pain
her body
one of her worst enemies
but Diego was there
Frida’s story
is a blueprint
for what many women
live through
the basic’s are not
that unusual
the question
to be asked
is
how much is a person
willing to take
before they realize
the price
they are paying
by the way
the chicklets
love Frida
Photo: Pixabay
Frida…
Frida
died
when she was
forty-seven
her life
was filled
with pain
in body
and often
in spirit
she was loving
passionate
angry
and
brilliant
she is loved
she is still
sought after
she
lived her life
her own way
in order
to survive
Frida
was made of
color
flowers
paint
and
imagination
she painted
what she lived
raw
bloody
painful
and
real
her only wish
was
never to return
Photo: Pixabay
FRIDA…
Anyone interested in Frida Kahlo, would love this book Five hundred photographs of her life. The book weighs a ton, since the paper is great, so the photographs look wonderful. Really heavy.
If you’ve watched the film, FRIDA, you’ll be amazed by how much her father in the movie looks like her actual father. Great casting. And Selma Kayak is amazing. It’s an incredible film. And Antonio Banderas has a small role, so yum. He’s so perfect in the part. Seriously, the cast is absolutely spot on. Diego, all of them. Perfect.
The photographs are regular pictures, taken by regular people, and those taken by professionals. They’re interesting and tell their own story. life.
Frida and Diego…words
no one knows what couples see in each other
I realize that Diego had power and talent
but no matter how horribly he treated her
Frida loved him
I will never understand that
it’s a form of self torture
and a life of pain
and yet
so many
choose suffering
over happiness
and self respect
Frida’s bed…
It was so small and she spent so much time in it. Lovely linens but a cage nonetheless.
Frida, Diego, cheating husbands, and Frida’s monkey (on her hip) 3 pictures
Diego was a man who only cared about himself. Huge ego. He loved Frida, needed her, but he didn’t love her enough to stop hurting her. Apparently neither did her sister when she slept with him. There must have been something about him that doesn’t show up in pictures because he is unattractive in pretty much every way possible.
The good thing is that Frida had affairs with lots of others. She was hurt and lonely. She also wanted to get back at Diego. Diego was jealous of the men she slept with. LOLOL How funny is THAT?
Still, I will never understand why anyone would ever want someone who constantly broke her heart. I know women who do that. I don’t get it. I never got it.
Why do people torture themselves like that? My mother did it. My father was a moron. Cheated constantly. I don’t think my mother had an affair, but I hope I’m wrong and I just never knew about it. I’d like to think that some one loved and thought about her, instead of himself. Even if it was only for a little while.
And let me tell you something…there are NO EXCUSES. So, as a society, we either have to change the rules about monogamy, or find a way for people to be true to each other. Because that kind of behavior hurts everyone around it.
Some of my women friends have had long affairs and their husbands never knew it. A lot of men don’t believe women do things like that, especially their own wives. It’s right in front of them and they just don’t believe it. They cheat, but can’t imagine their wives doing it. But if their husbands are cheating, why shouldn’t they? Frida was looking for warmth and trying to heal the open wounds left by the choices she herself made. Because if you love someone who doesn’t care if you suffer, expect open wounds.
Anyway, suffering is a choice a lot of women make. I don’t know why. Stockholm syndrome, loving your torturer? I can’t understand it, but I can see it. It makes for a truly miserable life…for everyone. Why would anyone love someone who hurt them? I’ve tried to understand my mom, Frida and the other women I know who have miserable lives because of men who cheat on them, but I just cannot understand why they do that to themselves. Why would anyone let someone do that to them?
I’m guessing past lives together. That’s the only thing I can come up with and if that’s true…they are failing miserably and will have to come back and do it again. Blah.
Frida and Diego never had kids. She had miscarriages, and suffered through that as well as her life with him and his inability to care enough about her to be faithful. But she didn’t have to stay. She left him after he slept with her sister, but eventually they got back together. He loved her, just not enough. Love isn’t supposed to hurt and make you unhappy, so call it what it is…slow torture and death of hope that anything will ever change. I saw it first hand, grew up with it. Nothing is worth that. Nothing at all.
Rethinking Life 
Written
on July 13, 2021