trying to re-connect

I think i am in a midlife crisis- I am trying to reconnect to the first efforts to be a cartoonist. What gave me the drive to fill loads of sketchbooks with funny faces and images, what gives me the drive to want to create animations and cartoons, before the hype of being a graphic artists... Just being that cartoony guy and wanted to go to the next step and being excited about it... I just  saw a animated movie on Amazon called the Last Unicorn (1982)... I had seen this in the show before I hit college and thought is was the cleanest and coolest animation at the time I had ever seen- enough to rival Disney... It inspired me so much I was drawing unicorns everywhere ( kind of uncool for a male).  I remember getting requests in high school to draw unicorns for some girls in class (cool factor returning).. I researched the movie and it was a Rankin and Bass movie directed by Jules Bass and animated by the company Topcraft-that eventually was bought out by Studio Gibli- I believe the same design staff did the Hobbit  and Lord of the Rings.  When I looked at it I first wanted to be a cartoon artist working in film before comics and I felt since I did not have the traditional animation school training that I would be set aside to do funny pictures but just as a hobby... But for some reason, I am still drawing.  This suggests that there may not be an end for me unless I want it to end... Soo I am going to keep trying to make my dreams come true even though others think I can't and won't... "The only person that can tell you you can't is yourself- so keep drawing and growing"