I'm thinking that Pip is talking about a metaphorical chain of good and bad events throughout a person's life. The gold and iron links are supposed to symbolize good and bad things and the thorns and flowers mean the same thing. The flowers are for good things that a person chooses to do in their life and thorns or bad choices. I feel like Pip was hinting towards the way he felt about lying about the event at Ms. Havisham's house. This has been an iron chain link in his life because of the way he felt about lying to Joe and Mrs. Joe. It changed him because now he is more conscientious about his actions.
I think that the first event in my life that had created my chain was when I was five and I playing on the slide on the playground and i slid down a metal pole in the side of the slide and got a very thin piece of metal about an inch long in my knee. It hurt a lot and scared me too because I couldn't see it. All I could see was the glimmer of the top of it sticking out of my knee. My brother helped me get home and the he took it out with a pair of tweezers and i immediately felt better. That had changed my life because now I am a lot more conscious about what I do. Now I give things more thought before I do them.
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