A Rare Point of Enlightenment

I find myself to be a little old fashioned for a young man of 21, to the point I will frequently tell people that I feel I am old before my time yet I would not consider myself a "Victorian" man.
I use the word man only because I have gotten to an age now where I can no longer justify the term "boy". I have come to the point also in which I have entered what I believe to be a rare point of enlightenment which I accredit in part to my both luckily and yet unfortunately long summer break from university.

In certain social situations in my life I have always been relatively reserved, not so much in my nature by any means but certainly in my actions. I have never been what many would consider a "rebel". While this has done me well so far in my life it has certainly not given me many legendary stories within my life and in some ways I sometimes feel that my youth was wasted.
But now I am looking to my future that my time should be devoted purely to what it is I love. Many of these are obvious; friends, family and my chosen career and main vehicle of my creativity that is my acting. But there are also those which are less obvious to some. Perhaps one of these less obvious passions is my love for deep, rich stories.

There was a time when I would read at least a chapter of my current book once, every night before I went to sleep, a practice that progressively disappeared as my love for watching a film a night began to take over and which itself has since been taken over by my "night person" nature of being most productive only after ten at night.
But now I have realised just how much I am missing, looking to engage myself once again into a story not of this world. It should be noted that I have no interest (at least in terms of fictional novels) in reading about modern day characters with mundane lives interrupted by some bizarre event that pulls them out of their comfort zone, or worse still a recycled version of the same love story format that has saturated the creative world or indeed more specifically the romance genre.
Those who know me well enough will know that I am interest in the magical and unearthly, the stories that could be easily mistaken for legends of old. My love for these stories is almost childlike and I am aware that it is certainly not shared by all although by the same token their are indeed many that will share my enthusiasm.

My enlightenment has come not only with my desire to explore the fantastical worlds but also with the intention of getting lost in the life long desire of the literary creation of my own fantasy realm.