In the summertime....

As I write this blog, I am also crooning shaggy's "in the summertime" as it plays in the background. So the crux of all this talk is that summer is here. After having lived in Delhi the most part of my life, summer was my least favorite time, given the fact that the heat is brutal and the sun is piercing. I am yet to see a nation celebrate summers like the United States. Maybe because most of the continent is frozen for most of the year. So they live it up after the long hibernation.

One sees the phrase 'summertime' as part of jingles, songs and ads. Heck, its even the favorite time for big studios to release some of the best films of the year. Well, besides loads of suncream and sun dresses. I am looking forward to the freshest produce of the year. Some of widest variety of juicy fruits and veggies are grown locally in California. But the real reason I am excited is that most of the fresh fruits I'd be having for breakfast would be from my own yard - apricots, plums, peaches, apples, grapes, lemons.

Its not because I savour all these fruits without having to pay a dime, its because they are organic. Most of the food is processed and induced with chemicals and preservatives or are artificially tampered with and to be able to have something that grew with just some good old care, water, sunshine and some fertilizer is a big deal. Trust me, everything is so fast nowadays that most farmers can't wait for a fruit or vegetable to ripen, they are artificially enhanced and when we eat that over-sized,over-red tomato, we eat all that junk that was put in it to make it what it is.

On the one hand , we feel when we earn good money, it would automatically mean a better life, a better quality of life rather. But is that really true...? An average American spends half his money filling himself with artificial sugar, fat and hordes of junk food (I wonder why its called fast food, considering its the hardest and the slowest to get off our bodies!) and ironically spends the remaining money getting treatments and fighting diseases caused by that food. Ah, such is the circle of life!

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