Congrats! You're worried about your future.
Now, getting back on track. Below you'll find links to a few topics and people I have been seeing over the past few months that have personally helped me understand a lot of finance.
At the very least, just understand what inflation and compound interest mean. If you understand these, you'll realize why the concept of investing comes about.
This is to note that these are just resources to help understand and not be thought of as financial advice.
How the economy works by Ray Dalio