Not any day have gone hungry and stay proud than asking for help. It always happened some several years back in my youth, no tangible job, no good income. I could go hungry without food for several days. I could go to friends for help but nothing forth came. Sometimes I could borrow some amount from my place of work just for buying food to take me some few days. You know at this point in life, you may find yourself begging, if you will not think out of the box. Some also will begin to disassociate from you and stereotype as a beggar. But thanks all those days are long gone.