The Paradox [V]

I was wondering about what did i expect from the new places that i have shifted to at any point in my life. When i shifted to a city called Kota from Udaipur (my hometown) I expected it to be cleaner as its bigger than my city and I always felt that the municipality did not do its job correctly but it was worse!
Then i shifted to mumbai and expected a lot of pollution there in and around college, there is a lot of that all right in mumbai but my college was as clean and natural as a forest!
I also expected that i would loose some weight and will have a flat stomach because of the mess food but again ..... i was wrong ....... i am still the same and that too surprizingly when i ate little because the mess food was not good. I wonder what went wrong! :D.
At this point i would like to mention that i am a jain by birth so ...... do not eat non-vegetarian food and also do not drink. there are other fundaes but i would not go in details. When i came to america, i expected to have problem with food and thought that would have to learn to cook american food with all american ingredients. But i ended up learning new Indian dishes with american ingredients as raw vegetables!!
and ended up eating very much vegetarian food at some group which serves the vegetarian food in the name of lord krishna!!
At present, i have been scribbling some scrap books with "shudh hindi" too!
The paradox that i was actually wondering was about the best way of living. There was an exhibit outside the library about "organic food" by the horticulture dept. When indians are copying the use of chemicals thinking that since others use them and they give more production, they are good. Americans are moving "backwards". I see people not using lifts as long as they can resist it. while they have invested so much in the lift installations and all!!