Volunteer for disaster relief work sometime. Meet people who have no keys, cell, phone, purse, money, dog, house, and family.
Americans need to pull their empty heads out of their large, pampered asses and re-evaluate their priorities. (This is not directed at you in particular, just a general sentiment.
I borrowed a cell phone to call family members for help first. This made me think of something that I had not really considered before and that is how few phone numbers that I have memorized now. When people started having multiple phone numbers and you could dial them up on your cell phone without remembering the number, I just stopped memorizing them. This was a wake up call because of the old ones that I do still remember, none of those people were at home and I had not memorized their cell phone numbers. I am working on this now.