What Did You Expect?

So in the end, I began Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I am fairly certain I have not read the book since high school and though that was not that long ago (ahem), the story drew me in.

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. 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.