You are 20. About the only thing that it is too late to do is become an Olympic gymnast. Young children can do very well with contacts.
The only concern when we try them on someone young is that they will have a bad experience and never try again. Evidently that is what happened with you. Since that time, I hope you have matured a lot.
You have also probably applied makeup around your eyes. You owe it to yourself to try again.
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.