A candle gets shorter the longer it lives. Spend your light on something worth seeing.

Giving light is not free. A candle shortens as it burns and there is no version where it glows without spending itself, which is a fair description of attention, energy and care. Since the supply is finite, what you point it at matters more than how brightly you manage to burn. A lot of people spend themselves generously on things nobody will remember by Friday.

Look at where your evenings went last week. Choose one thing worth the light and one thing that was quietly eating it, and move an hour from the second to the first.