Life is like a chain

I think Pip is talking about life. Well, that seems to be an obvious answer but I don't have any other way to put it. "The thorns and flowers that bound us.." I think of those as the major events that have happened in our life to make us who we are today. The thorns being the bad events, that make us different, like mine is my great grandfather's funeral. A thorn that bounds me is watching him being lowered into the ground and knowing that he would never see me marry the man of my dreams or watch me graduate from college. And that effects me my wanting to do everything I do in spite of him, and even know he can't be there with me, knowing he is watching me. A flower would be a great moment that effects you in a positive way, and I have many of those and I would hope that everyone would. My flower is holding my nephew for the first time when he was two days old. I can't describe the feeling perfectly because it is beyond words. I just knew that I loved this eight pounds in my arms more than anything. My flowers and thorns have all changed my life for better or worse, but that is a part of life. And I think that Pip's have done the same for him. And I believe that realizes that our memories make ourselves better is part of maturity, and Pip is maturing. He is growing, and throughout the last couple of chapters we are seeing him grow up and act more like an adult than he has ever before.