The moon looks bigger near the horizon, but it isn’t. Your brain is guessing. Don’t trust every size it tells you.

Size is not something you see, it is something your mind calculates from whatever context it has. Near the horizon it has trees and roofs to compare against, so it guesses wrong, confidently and identically for everybody. The same machinery sets the size of your problems, using your mood and the time of night as context.

So measure instead of eyeballing when it counts. Write down what the problem actually is, in one sentence, and what would have to happen for it to be solved. Problems usually shrink on paper, and the few that do not shrink turn out to be the ones worth real effort.