Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.
I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.