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The situation reminds me of where I come from. When my wife and I got married, we managed to buy a used mobile home with a loan from relatives. It cost us $6000, and we parked at an RV park. No electricity beyond a single extension cord to which we could connect 1 thing:
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A hot plate for cooking, a small space heater, the stereo, or a little TV. But though it was cold that winter, we live through it because we had to. We had plans & needed to save money. I was a university student; Angélica worked at the factory. Both of us from poor families.
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I spent a chunk of my teens sleeping on the floor in cockroach-infested government housing. She also grew up, especially her early childhood, in desperate conditions in Mexico. She started selling oranges on the street when she was five. We both learned to cope. So, yeah.
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hardship is never fun, but we learned from adversity and rose above it despite everything. And we learned that we can take a lot more than what we ever imagined. Not that we should have to, but there is something liberating in understanding that you can survive.
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