When I first came to Israel I tried psychotherapy. A few weeks in, my therapist (whom I admired) asked me to write a list of the five things that were most important to me. 

"Like what?"

"Like happiness, money, family..."

So I sat for quite a while thinking & compiling. 

When I had finished I handed her the list. 

"Now this is very interesting," she said, "Number one is Softness and number two is Intimacy, and here you are in a country where you are not going to find either..."