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 reason might this individual have for suddenly becoming introspective ?
Answer: They are having their thirtieth birthday and that 's scary to themThey are about to turn 26 , which is a new chapter in their lifeNone of the above choices .They have suffered a bereavement and it 's changed their life