Chains

Pip's chain started on the first day he went to Miss Havisham's to 'play'. There, he meets Estella, who criticizes him for being a 'common labouring-boy', and changes his life forever. He no longer wants to be common, which he had no problem with before, and now wants to be a gentleman. He has grown self-conscious of who he is and wants to change.

Like all people, I have many chains. Some stretching as far back as I can remember, and some so short they started yesterday. But today, I’ll talk about the longest chain I have: music. I started my first instrument, piano, when I was four. For the first months, my chain consisted of nothing but gold and flowers. But that wasn’t meant to last long. My gold and flowers quickly turned to iron and thorns. It was like that until fifth grade, when I took up the trumpet. This helped me turn iron and thorns back into gold and flowers. After that, tuba and guitar came in, and strengthened my chain. Without music, my whole life would’ve changed. I don’t know how, and I don’t intend to find out. I’m happy being me, and music has made me that way.