Advice for Life: Keeping Occupied

Keeping occupied The best way in life, is to keep oneself occupated with studying Torah. When one has Torah-study as one's main occupation, one will have no time for other distractions in lfe which drain much of the valuable devine energy within us. Reply

worried I also pick up a disability check and I am worried and concerned that I don't have enough to keep myself occupied...I go to groups that deal with Therapies and the groups are quite honorable with skilled social workers and therapists in charge. When I am home I study a bit of Hebrew and I go on Chabad.org and study about religon and lately I have been going on dbtselfhelp.com and working very fine but I worry if this is enough-I also watercolor-I have a painting degree from Mass college of Art so I do feel keeping busy is important-I think what I am trying to say is that Hebrew is hard and so is DBT-So I guess I'll paint or even sew I like that too-If I find Hebrew and DBT too hard. Thank you for writing this Reply

no job, no occupation I couldn't agree with the Rabbi more. I am home on disability and it is boring, frustrating and isolating. Much of my identity and self esteem was tied to my career, and now that is gone. I wish that I had known that I would later become disabled because I don't know that I would have spent so much time on schooling (master's degree). I might have traveled the world or climbed more mountains. While my children are young it is a blessing that I can spend more time with them, but once they are grown I'll just have to find something to do with myself. Reply