Is Recursion Really Important?

If you don't get Recursion, I get this is one of those terrible statements that I'm going to make. You're not a programmer. You're a code monkey. But it's so fundamental to logic and just everyday life logic. Being able to say that where something ends is where it begins isn't hard. It may have a weird name, but it's not, I think it's difficult to explain, but easy to understand.