So , here it is , the first day of another September , and I sit here in the virtual eve of my 26th birthday , I find that there is no better time than the present to write a retrospective narrative of the past year , my 25th year . It has been a crazy ride . If ever there were events or people that could have ignited a 1/4-life crisis , they occurred in my life over the past year . Let 's start at the beginning , and go from there .

Question: What might have pre - empted this ?
a milestone birthday and the first day of a new month