Actually I'd prefer a medium built wife with good boobs, but I digress. If you are happier more often than sad and if you leave the world a little better than when you found it, then you have had a successful life.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.