Evening gives some thoughts permission to speak after the day’s demands grow quieter.

Certain thoughts wait until nothing else is asking for you. All day they are held off by tasks and other people, and when the demands finally stop, whatever you have been avoiding arrives in the quiet, which is why evenings can feel unexpectedly heavy. The hour did not cause the thought. It simply offered the first gap.

If something reliably turns up late at night, give it ten deliberate minutes earlier in the day. Write it down, say it to somebody, take one small action. Attended to in daylight, it usually asks for less after dark.