While I haven't had to live with hunger all my life, I've been through some months of real hunger, with no money to buy food. Your description above comes very

While I haven't had to live with hunger all my life, I've been through some months of real hunger, with no money to buy food. Your description above comes very close to my (foggy) memories of the experience. It changed me. Things that I remember: - like you said, I was constantly tired because of the constant feeling of hunger. I was mostly one minded, thinking about how to get any food. - I was also grumpy (low blood sugar), didn't talk almost at all (although I was sharing my room with other people so there was plenty of opportunity to speak). Also made me feel like the lowest person around, useless, because I would just wait around until my room mates would prepare something to eat hoping that they'd invite me to share, that was really bad for self esteem. I was starting to think (could be real, but in my state of mind at the time I can't be sure) that my room mates were going hungry/delaying eating to avoid me being there so I started going out just to let them eat and not feel bad of not being able to share - it didn't help that I got fired from my first job after 2 weeks of work (and they didn't pay me anything) I got out of it by blind luck, a friend found someone that was looking to hire someone with my skills and told me about it.