How valuable is it to study something that is just temporary?
Suddenly this question crossed my mind. Let's say it's not because of career improvement, earning a degree, starting a business, making a big discovery in science for the rest of the humankind or similar but just to quench the thirst for knowledge.
Now imagine you are a 120 years old man or woman and you are about to die, would it really matter to know all about your biological body you are about to leave anyway? Or like instead of going out in a sunny day you spend your days learning about the sun with astronomy books.
It's like someone is giving you a video game console and instead of playing with your friends you decide to spend more time trying to reverse engineering the components of it just to learn how a console is done. And at some point someone is going to get that console away from you, so you will not be able to use it or study it anymore.
With this in mind it seems more important to just enjoy the physical world as it is until we are able to do it rather than learning how it works.
Also maybe when we die we are going to get all the knowledge of the universe in any case or we just forget about the previous world, or we join a completely different permanent dimension with completely different rules and the mortal world doesn't matter anymore.
What are your thoughts on this topic?
(I'll probably start the course anyway but I'm not as much convinced as when I decided to start it.)