Perception and Significance

Someone's perception of good vs bad for you, and the level of protectiveness towards you,

are enough to showcase how significant you are, as a part of their life.

I guess that way, family will always be number one, vis-a-vis the rest.

Friends may be somewhere in the middle of that list,

and colleagues/acquaintances somewhere towards the end..

But how does the ranking of people's significance help us evolve as people??
Does it help us at all?
Too many thoughts in between, and I am suddenly lost under the pile of my own questions.

Sigh..