Broke and grateful is a combination that builds people who don’t get weird when money shows up.

Having little is not itself a lesson, and nobody should pretend it is. What can happen inside it, though, is that you learn where value actually sits, which is mostly in people, time and things that were never for sale. Learn that early and money later becomes a tool; miss it and money tends to run the person holding it.

Notice which of the good things in your week cost anything. Usually most did not. Keep that list, because it holds its shape whether your situation improves or does not. Wanting more is fine; needing more in order to feel like yourself is the part worth avoiding.