Life can look kind of tough sometimes. But maybe it's how we go about looking ...

Daigu Riokan ("Great Goof" or "Big Fool") became enlightened and decided not to take students but to live as a hermit and subsist on alms. Consequently, he was very, very poor.

However, that's not the end of the story.

One day a thief broke into his hut, and finding nothing worth stealing, trashed the place. Finding this, Daigu Riokan wrote this haiku --

The thief left it there,
there in the window --
the shining moon.