Mache chache, pa dòmi san souple.
One who keeps on searching does not sleep without dinner. This could be the literal translation for that proverb.
In Haiti, life is a struggle. Whatever you want to find, get, or achieve is not easy. It take time, energy, patience, hard work, and dedication to have it.
The meal that we take at night is called "soupe". People say that if you take the whole day searching for something to eat, you will, at least, find the "soupe".
This teaches us to be patient and keep hope in our venture knowing that one day we will have the result of our hard work and dedication. But it also a warning to those who keeps on making poor choices, doing wrong or accelerating in the bad way. They will have the result of their choices.
People say this proverb as a compliment after an achievement that requires hard working and perseverance or as a blame to someone who gets the results of his/her poor action.
We should remember that any choice that we make, anything that we dedicate ourselves to either good or bad, we will find the result.
