"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."
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
