"Only the pot knows how hot the fire is"
I learnt about this saying at a relatively unripe stage of my development, which is when I was doing my primary education. I do not reckon I truly understood what this meant in totality at that stage of my life. I wasn’t too keen on establishing a relationship between my encounters and proverbial wisdom back then. Not a lot of events had occurred that could coherently relate to it. It is a well thought out saying, implying that only the person experiencing a situation has true and literal knowledge of how challenging and difficult the situation is. Thinking about it now, a sense of enhanced understanding has been provoked through my subsequent encounters to present day. A lot of things happen in our lives and every so often there is a social tendency of sharing these occurrences with others. This is done as a means to seek some relief and bonding. My realization with such action is that not always do the people we share our predicaments with understand what it is that is truly manif