Uh...both my parents died. That was weird. I was hoping I would at least be in my 40s by the time that happened, but nope. 14 (mom) and 37 (dad). There was a lot of stuff around dealing with a parent's passing that I found a bit overwhelming, since I was just a kid when it happened the first time, so the adults around me dealt with all that stuff then. It's good to know, I guess, but I'm glad I don't have to go through it ever again.
Politics have gotten a lot more acerbic and gross-feeling. I don't feel good about voting basically ever, and the way that political things involve so much walking on eggshells has really convinced me that we in the USA are in what amounts to an abusive relationship with our own political system.
I don't know a single person in Gen Z on an individual level. I only have one friend who is even in their 20s. The rest are within about 4 years of my own age (38), with very few exceptions. I assume that this is a consequence of getting older and aging out of cool young people stuff. Where would I even interact with young people anyway, even if I felt comfortable doing so? At some college party where they'd probably assume I'm a narc cos I'm like 15-20 years older than all of them? Ugh. No thanks.
I care a lot more about quality friendships rather than just having someone around to talk to to distract myself from loneliness or whatever. I guess I've become more introspective. In religion, as well, I've not exactly had an easy time of things (there aren't a lot of Americans of non-Egyptian/Sudanese/Libyan background in the Coptic Orthodox Church...yet), but I feel more at home now than I did when I was younger and having to go to Protestant churches, or even later in my 20s when I made the decision to be a Roman Catholic. I've taken a lot of inspiration from the Desert Fathers and Mothers and their simple but profound stories, and found the Bible and related parts of the faith a lot more rewarding and filling once untethered from both radical subjectivity and one-dimensional and colorless literalism.