I am nervous about every crypto! What's the best way to start? I guess that a hardware wallet can't store these things? I don't have any coins to be stolen lol but I don't want to do something stupid and regret it later (like selling the bitcoins I had for $100 years ago... I wasn't thinking straight about anything then but it unfortunately is a memory I didn't lose lol and it is annoying me still like it was yesterday!).

Should I just plunge into it and lose the fear?