Fresher Than a Pillow With a Mint on It...

What is "Freshness"? 

If you asked me 10 years ago, I would have stared at you blankly; I went to a private country day school that is 87% Hebrew (Jewish). And, after you explained to me what the term means (I'm intelligent, I catch on quickly...) I would have told you without hesitation that "Freshness" is a low fade with a part, bright colored clothing with stripes or other patterns, and a pair of Air Jordan's or Jumpmans.

That was 10 years ago. 

Today, while all of the aforementioned fads are acceptable at times and condemned at others, they do not define "Freshness"; and not because they're no longer fly (you know I had to use that word in this post) but because those items are... I hate to say this...

NO LONGER SIGNIFICANT.

That's right - No Longer Significant. I'm sorry, but somebody had to say it. And yes, for those of you who know how obsessed I am with clothes and shoes (goddamn, I have a shoe fetish worse than most housewives with husbands on Wall Street) and the like, it is ironic for me to assert that commodity - in general - is no longer significant. What with a National Debt of 1+ Trillion Dollars (that's right... TRILLION), two wars, The Great Recession, and a damn near 9% unemployment rate (13.4 for Blacks) we can no longer focus on the materials - and those are just the issues I thought of in the shower as I washed the stress off my back. That's right, college decisions loom. 

Quite honestly, I have bigger problems and more profound questions than, "What is "Freshness?"; and to be even more honest, I don't have an answer to that question. But what I do know is this: "Freshness" is not 165 million dollars in bonus money to employees of a company 70 billion some odd dollars in debt to US tax payers; "Freshness" is not certain incendiary members of the GOP wishing for our President to fail in his attempts to deliver this nation away from the depths of disaster to the heights of success. But what do I know...

I haven't even gotten into college yet.......

Thank you for smoki- I mean reading

JbP