Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.