I once gave a class a test with only one question.

I once gave a class a test with only one question. And somehow everyone failed. On the paper, there was just a drawing of a chair. Nothing complicated, no trick wording, just one simple question: What is the most important part of this chair? The students felt super confident. They wrote things like the legs, the seat, the backrest, all of the obvious answers. When the teacher collected the papers, she just shook her head. None of you got it right. The room went quiet. Because how do you fail a question that simple? Then she explained, the most important part is the one you can't see. The screws. The small pieces holding everything together. Without them, the chair collapses. And that's when it clicked. Because life works the same way. We focus on what's visible: the job, the money, the achievements. But the things that actually hold everything together, you don't see them. Your health, your habits, the people that support you when nobody's watching. The small decisions you make every day, those are the screws. And most people, they don't notice them until something falls apart. So don't wait for things to break to appreciate what's holding you up. Because the strongest lives aren't built on what's seen, they're built on what isn't.