Importance is as important as you make it

My wife said something tonight about the importance of writing these learning that hurt me quite deeply. It was actually just passing comment, blurted during one of her many sulking moments, which has become quite regular as her pregnancy progresses. Still, the word somehow cut a little too much out off my pride.
Now I’m not the kind of person who is easily offended but tonight I was, by an issue of importance. For someone who doesn’t think himself as important, the issue of importance is important. Well, maybe the fact that the comment came from my wife who I expect to take me as important helped the matter escalate somewhat.
Now think about all those important people, like those who called themselves the representatives of the people, all those ministers who claimed to serve the people, all those celebrity.
No wonder they got zinged quite easily. Their importance must have brought them to think that everything about them is important and cannot be criticized much less questioned about its importance.