“I made the point to show what life would look like if I was not his ’parent,’ but rather a ’roommate,'” his mom explained in a follow-up Facebook post . “It was a lesson about gratitude and respect from the very beginning. Sometimes, you have to lose it all to realize how well you really had it.” Her methods worked. When Aaron found the letter, he “stormed” out of the apartment in anger but later returned to his room, calmed down and said sorry. “He apologized, and asked what could he do to make things better and start earning items back,” his mom wrote. “He earned his comforter and some clothes right back. I did leave him some clothes to begin with, just not the ones he would want to wear every day.” This is definitely one valuable lesson Aaron will always remember.