Over time I played with a lot of languages & environments to find which ones I liked. I started with Java: stable, mature, and well-documented but verbose.

Later I noticed that Python (along with Java and C++) was part of the trinity that Google used internally - and I met some smart engineers from there - so that's how I got into Python.

Then the internet became big and desktop app development became not very important anymore. Web development and mobile is in. Many modern ostensibly-native desktop apps are actually written in web tech these days with an Electron wrapper to make it run on the desktop as a regular app. Notably Spotify and Slack.

So right now I'd suggest looking into web tech even though it's unfortunately rather complicated these days. It's the most widely available deployment platform in existence if you're trying to reach consumers (and make a difference in the world through reaching them).

RE web tech, just play around with plain HTML, CSS, and light JavaScript. Ignore the frameworks like React, Vue, etc - they'll just confuse you at first. (I think JQuery is still okay to play with to start out, but you'll eventually want to migrate to document.querySelector and window.fetch later.)

Once you have the fundamentals of web tech down (i.e. HTML, CSS, JS), then pick up some of the bigger tools like Vue/React (for frontend dev) or Django/Rails (for backend dev).