Code web sites and other projects,
tweet and create Twitter bots,
cook and bake,
play with my cat,
listen to podcasts and watch audio described movies and shows,
play the guitar,
go to the park,
spend time with my wife,
attend a monthly book club,
play accessible games online.

I think many of us have been where you’re at, and it is a hard experience. One of the things that I have found helpful was to sit down and think about what I wanted to do. Then research the ways you might be able to do this, while working on letting go of expectations that will be the same as it is for cited individuals.

I remember going through this myself, and a lot of what I wanted to do more things like videogames, and actually watching TV with my eyes. A lot of what I wanted to do was a form of escapism, and I had to think about what that meant. It may be that you need to re-engage with the world and that means other people. Maybe you could try reading your audiobooks in public places or even start writing your own fiction or nonfiction, but also doing this in public places so that you at least acclimate yourself to being around other people and in the world.

Music is a great way to keep your hands and mind engaged, as are any number of other hobbies. The more senses you can bring in, the better. Crafting, pottery, cooking, etc. try some sports design for blind people if you have any in your area, or give bowling ago and see if you can find some local leagues that or just casual and wouldn’t mind having you as part of their team. You’ll probably take little steps forward at first, but you can build up the momentum and the motivation and the depression will fade, and life can be enjoyable!

I listen to a lot of talk radio and music. I ride my exercise bike. I have a garden.
Maybe you could find support in a church group or blind club. You might also seek professional help to have someone help you work through the adjustments.
Just remember. You are not alone.

I've been on the same boat for the last 4 years.

I used to code back when I had sight but stopped doing it after going blind because it requires too much effort for too little return and doesn't flow naturally with me anymore, so now I sleep as much as possible and browse reddit twice or thrice a day to stay up to date with the news and complain about my blindness.

My sister comes over for a visit almost every day and that's usually the highlight of the day except on Tuesdays when I talk to a psychologist about the past when my life was great and get to introspect about what bothers me in blindness. All my conversations either revolve around blindness or end up leading there, so you can imagine how annoying it must be to be around me. Even here on /r/blind people are getting tired of me. My friends distanced themselves when I lost my sight and rarely, if ever, contact me. When asked about me some of them say that I've changed my phone number, which is not true, and this tells me a lot about their intentions.

I've tried to learn piano and was doing fine with the first grade songs, but as soon as the songs started to force me to lift my hands off the keyboard and I learned that I'd need years of practice before I could get it right I decided to quit because, again, music was no longer flowing naturally with me and unlike in coding there are no special techniques to get better at it other than training a lot.

Back in 2014, shortly before going completely blind, I fell to a railway because my contrast perception was already too bad to distinguish the edge of the platform and got hit by an incoming train but unfortunately didn't die, so now I have to endure this.

I'm not clinically depressed though, which makes things even harder since there is no medication to fix me. I spend my days day-dreaming about what my life could have been if I hadn't lost my sight.

I listen to audiobooks, audio dramas, watch (listen to) tv,, audio described movies, audio described shows, go out exploring London, talk to my friends, order food online, shop online, watch (listen to) porn and other sexual stuff, read fan fiction (Harry Potter is my favorite.)

There's so much you can do, even if you don't manage to get out that much like me.

There's games, movies from blindmicemart.com, serieses on there too. I have a lot of audio dramas and books, (I have all the Harry potter books, movies and music and a huge tun of fan fiction) If any of this stuff sounds interesting to you, feel free to PM me and I'll see what I can do about letting you download the stuff using dropbox.

As for things floing naturally, no one can be good at everything so there's no way things can flow naturally to us. Most of us, apart from those who are gifted in certain ways, must practise what we like over and over until we get it right.

I wasn't gifted with the knoloedge to touch ttype, I had to learn it at a young age. I didn't know how to use the internet and had to teach myself. There's a lot more that I didn't and still don't know and will keep teaching myself those things until I do or I get board of them, what ever comes first.

Think about what you want to learn and go from there. There's free screen readers out there these days like NVDA and voiceover for browsing the internet. Perhaps if you tell us a bit more about what you're interested in, we can help you?

Oh, as for grade one piano? I can't do that, I find it way to hard so see? There's something you can do that I can't. We all have our own strengths and weekenesses

A lot.

I’ve been super in to reddit and I’ve been doing a lot of personality typing, self-improvement stuff. Enneagram is my newest and MBtI socionics. Self-development has been fun.

Other then that

Social media, going out and meeting and talking to others, social networking, food, gluttony is a thing for me. I can eat and eat and eat and eat. I like exploring the city, knowing the cities and counties. Politics, religion, debate, news, current events, reading, writing, going out to tea, collecting apps listening to music, music history, collecting music, learning, studying, reading about things, researching things, I love knowledge. er. technology, playing around with apps, audio, audio equipment, soundscaping, leading, running groups. Er. I think that’s it.

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I do mostly web-related things. quite a bit of blogging/social media, RSS and Reddit. I also listen to podcasts, stream TV shows online, and read books with the Kindle for PC.

I went back to college, in part, to have something to do. Between school, kids, chores and exercise I have no free time. A few minutes on reddit!

As far as games go, I was spending a lot of time playing Texas Holdem poker on Blind Adrenaline. B A has a great little community with lots of nice helpful people and three Tournaments a week plus other games pretty much every evening. There are even real money poker games if your interested. The other two gaming sights I have played on from time to time are RS games and QuentinC's playroom, which are both free. You can play with other people on all three of these sights, which might help you make socialize a bit.

By the way, I didn't mention it because you asked about "free time" but for me working and having a job really helps me from getting down. Being too caught up with work is part of the reason I'm not playing on B A any more for the moment.

I play a lot of guitar.

I can't play roller derby anymore, but now I skate at skate parks. Learnt with half pipes/bowls ect, can skate fine once I memorize where the walls ect are.

I used to do tons of needlework which now can't do, so I knit instead, ect.