Pip's Quote

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

    When I read this quote, I thought that it meant what you do on one day would affect another day. Like a chain, the very first link of a chain is where we all start out. But what we do or where we end up at depends on what we do to the previous link before the present link. To Pip, I think that he means that the first link of his chain was from the day that he went to Miss Havisham's mansion to "play". Also, when Estella remarked how common he was, made his ashamed of Joe, and he thinks that he would have a goal of becoming a gentlemen and uncommon. What Pip haven't thought about came to his mind when his first visit to Miss Havisham house, which would impact his life and thinking more than he can imagine.

   What this quote meant to me personally was that what I did on one day would affect on how my next day would be like. When I was little, my family would go visit my grandma who was in Hai Nan, and I hated to go there. But now that I think back to those times, I wished that I could go back there again and again. I felt a attachment to Hai Nan and to my grandparents and relatives. To my thinking, one would only know to treasure something only when it's no longer there or in my case possible . I guess every link in my life is what became of the me right this minute in my life.