Not everyone who applauds is cheering for you. Applause can be a mask—for envy, for curiosity, or for the desire to see how high you’ll climb before you fall. It’s a sound that costs nothing to make but can cost you everything to trust.
This is why silence is a safer companion. Moving quietly with your plans isn’t about secrecy, but about sacred self-preservation. Trust is earned in droplets, not awarded in buckets with every round of clapping. When you let your results make the noise, you protect your peace and your process from the subtle drains of spectatorship.
Our elders captured this with a perfect truth: “Sugarcane is sweet but no one swallows it.” We all know to savor the juice and spit out the choking fiber. Yet in life, we often forget. We cling to the sweet taste of familiarity in people who are, at their core, indigestible to our spirit.
YES! Sugarcane is sweet, but no one swallows it. There are some people you must spit out of your life, no matter how much you like them.
This leads to the hardest, most necessary act: spitting certain people out of your life, no matter how sweet the memory of their juice. It’s the friend who dims your light, the relative who relishes your stumbles, the partner who competes with your dreams. You may like them. You may love them. But if their presence consistently leaves you blocked, drained, or diminished, they are the fiber you must discard.
The lesson is one of profound discernment. Edit your inner circle with care. Listen less to the noise people make and more to the actions they take when the spotlight is off. Guard your dreams in strategic silence. And have the courage to spit out what—or who—threatens to choke your growth, even if it tastes sweet.
True safety and success are found not in the crowd’s clamor, but in the quiet confidence of knowing who and what you’ve chosen to keep.
Inspired by :
Proverbs 27:6
“Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.”
Proverbs 18:24
“One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
Thanks for reading. May you take refuge in God and live in Him for your life’s safety in Jesus Name. Shalom!!!! subscribe and share it to your love ones.
E.A. Randolph-Koranteng
…A Servant of Christ…
Idea Champions Center
