You wouldn’t be able to feel how important you are if it wasn’t for the hard days.

Importance is invisible while everything is running. Nobody notices the beam holding the ceiling up.

Then a hard stretch arrives and things reorganise around you. People check in. Plans get changed. Somebody drives further than is reasonable.

It is an uncomfortable way to find out, and most people would rather have simply been told.

The information is accurate, though, and it does not expire when the difficulty does. You were that important on the ordinary days too. It was just not being displayed anywhere.