How significant am I?

I'd like to think that I'm a fairly significant person, but that's just a lie I tell myself so that I get out of the bed in the morning. In truth, my significance probably has a lot to do with my emotional proximity to people, because I can only really judge my significance as my emotional value to others. My significance is also directly linked to my perceived uniqueness. I say perceived because only those that actually know me will view me as an individual and not lump me together into a group, so my uniqueness changes in the eyes of each individual and thus my significance is variable. In this way, my significance basically boils down to how many people know me, and how many peoples lives that I affect. You can see this when looking at those that we claim to be "most significant" in history. For example, George Washington is considered to be very significant because he was the first president of our nation. However, if we did not constantly teach each new generation about George Washington, his significance would decrease dramatically because no one would remember, and while he may have gotten us here, he does not truly matter to our daily lives. He will be considered significant nonetheless, and much more significant than others who may do a lot to help us today, like scientists or the guy in Germany who designed escalators that go both up and down. In short, significance is an unjust and incorrect system, but there is no way to change that. I guess I'll just start friending random people on facebook, raise my significance a notch or two.