Getting Used to Reality (ii)

I have written before of things that I do not want to get used to. I wrote there:

I am trying not to become insensitive to my reality, especially when my reality is a dream.

Along those lines, here are 10 more things I'd like not to get used to.....

1. My wife's support in general and about our aliyah in particular (as I wrote before, she is in America now!)
2. Taxi drivers who do not appear to be shomer Shabbat (though looks are deceiving) wishing me a "Shabbat Shalom" or "Shavua Tov."
3. Doing shmira (guard duty) in shul and in the city/village where we live and remembering why there is a need in the first place to do shmira (guard duty) in shul and in the city/village where we live.
4. Reading the Chumash or the Navi about cities in Israel and knowing where they are and/or having visited their recently.
5. Old pictures or videos of the early chalutzim in their quest to build the Land of Israel while fighting off Arabs, Turks, and malaria.
6. Seeing a Jewish soldier with Hebrew "Tza'hal" on the uniform. (I served in the I.D.F. when I was younger and will be called up to reserve duty early next year (they have not called me this year!) and I sometimes still get emotional when I see a soldier!)
7. Seeing an Ethiopian soldier (what an incredible realization of kibbutz galiyot in one snapshot!).
8. Learning Torah in Hebrew (Lashon Hakodesh!)
9. Talking Hebrew (Lashon Hakodesh!)
10. Being able to visit the Kotel (Western Wall) almost whenever I want.

More to follow in future posts.