I wish I could go back to not giving a crap when writing a story...

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I've been having trouble coming up with new story ideas when it comes to participating in writing competitions. And it's persisted for the past nine years. At first I thought it was my lack of social interaction, and while that is a factor, I noticed something else is missing. When I was a teenager coming into my own creatively I created stuff merely because I could:"An African American cat-girl? Why not, right...?" A Halloween themed comic where a Demon pimp, sentient Jack-O-Lantern and sorcerer try to take over the world? Sure... A story where three highschool friends acquire magical powers to save a parallel dimension from demonic clowns who trap said kids in a playroom of horrors? Who's gonna stop me?" Yet in my complacency I've fallen into a rut where I recycle the same premise over and over... Which is depressing since I've got so much material to pull from with the people I've met and the variety of entertainment I indulge... I honestly which I could go back to my carefree attitude towards writing I had in my adolescence, but getting back to that point is difficult...