Should I give up and learn a different language instead?

3 years ago I started learning Japanese because I have been exposed to Japanese media since I was little so it made sense for me to learn it as my 3rd language but I stopped after a year because I was a college student at the time who had a lot of studying to do and after graduation I also had to spend months focusing on a very important exam that I need to take in order to get into medical school. A couple of months have passed and all of that’s been finally done so I went to gauge my Japanese proficiency, only to find out that I feel like I lost a lot of what I knew back then. Although beginner level, I was actually able to have short conversations with Japanese natives in hellotalk and irl, and even made friends there. Right now I am currently debating whether I should relearn as this language is actually something I’m very interested to learn but I worry that when med school starts I would have a hard time keeping it up. I enjoy language learning and if I do end up pausing Japanese for now, I would also love to learn French as I feel it would be relatively easier than Japanese. What do you guys think?