Is learning to programm worth it?

Around 2 months ago I started to learn Java. It was nothing I really wanted but a skill which was always kind of nagging me

After I was done talking to that skill I forgot about it till the same argument came up over and over till I finally typed into Youtube "Java for beginners" and wrote my Hello World program.

After that I was a bit hooked and spend more evenings trying to make sense of some strange looking words, screaming at my laptop why it does not work and being very happy when it finally did.

While I was doing this pretty much without any goals or ideas what I actually want to do with it, it was still a nice side project.

After a talk with a friend of mine who is very good in that kind of stuff I am getting more and more motivated to commit myself to the little sideproject and maybe make a bigger one out of it.

I found a site which seems to be very well organized and since a couple of weeks an actual idea is forming what I could do with my maybe in the future new skill set.

While I spend a bit of time on those Java tutorials already it is still far away from being an actual useful something but I also did not spend the time they said you need to learn it.

This friend told me I should check out Python because it would be easier and more practical of the things I want to build. As I value his opinion I checked it out and I while it is not a total restart I am back at square one which actually feels not as bad as I thought...while writing this nonsense I think I turn from a "kind of want to learn it" to a "want to learn it"...