He is referring to the moment he entered the gate at Miss Havisham's house. That was the moment that he met Estelle which started a long chain of events that leads him to where he is now. Because of this he realizes just how 'coarse and common' he is. This makes him feel ashamed of who he is. In the following chapters Pip becomes resentful of how poor his family is and starts to realize that maybe he doesn't want to be a common blacksmith like Joe. He becomes extremely self concious and at the end of the night after he is apprenticed to Joe, he thinks to himslef that just maybe he won't have any fun now.
The first link in my chain was my first day on a real swim team. I started to realize my dream of becoming a real swimmer. To this day I have never had regrets about that decision. That day led to me making varsity on our high school team and meeting a whole new group of people who were just like me. I would never have met some of the people who will now be life long friends.
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