Sleep on it. Midnight you is dramatic, and morning you has better judgment and breakfast.

The same situation looks different to a rested body, and the difference is not imaginary. Hunger, exhaustion and the particular quiet of late night all magnify whatever you are feeling and shrink whatever you could do about it. Morning does not make problems smaller; it restores your ability to size them.

Let anything that feels enormous at midnight wait until you have slept and eaten. Read it again at nine and see whether it is the same size, since often it is not.