The day that Pip is referring to is the day he spends with Mrs. Havisham and Estella. This day was life changing for him because he loses his childish, happy-go-lucky outlook on life. He realizes throughout the day that he was a lower class and that being higher mattered. Pip soon becomes ashamed of his home, family, social class, and life in general because he thinks he needs to live up to what he believes Mrs. Havisham and Estella like or tolerate. At this point in the book he realizes he is growing up. He used to want to be an apprentice to Joe and was enthusiastic about working in the blacksmith, but now Pip wants nothing to do with it and thinks lower of Joe because of it.
I think the turning point in my life was one day in baseball when I was ten. I just got onto a new team for an all-star season and the coach that was assigned to us was an out of state college assistant coach. Our team had practice in the middle of the afternoon one Sunday and I didn't want to be there because there was a big game, or something along those lines, on TV that day. Being the impatient ten year I was then, I began to mess around with the new coach thinking he would be friendly and kind. But when I was finished an at bat and stayed in the dugout too long, talking to one of my friends on the team, the coach proceeded to chew us out in a very vicious way for a ten year old. At most points I stopped listening because I was sad and angry, yet one thing he said sticks in my mind to this day and that is, "You can't mess with people now, you're in the real world son and next time your messing around you might as well go home because I won't tolerate messing around!" Now, 'messing' wasn't the exact terminology he used and that quote may actually be a slur of another coach's words I have heard mixed with this guy's, but it still taught me an important lesson. Behave well, follow rules, and don't stay in the dugout too long.
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