How to stay busy in times of idleness? !

For many reasons I have taken a voluntary leave from my regular work. After a while of feeling free from routine and constraints, I started to feel void. To complicate matter more, this came with a diminished income, evidently, amid rising inflation and some social uncertainties.  Long days passed and sleepless nights went by, till I began to formulate what is better for me in the next period of my life. Reentry into social life is not difficult but has to be planned with tact. In cases like mine, it is useful to be prudent, so as not to repeat same mistakes again or to fall prey within a wrong entourage.  (To be continued)