Sunday evening can be a strange time.
The weekend hasn't quite ended, but your thoughts may already be on the working week ahead. Perhaps there's an early start, a difficult meeting, unfinished work or simply the feeling that your free time has disappeared too quickly.
For some people, these thoughts can make it difficult to relax or fall asleep.
We've written an original poem called Tomorrow Can Wait, exploring that familiar feeling of being physically in the evening while mentally living in the morning.
It isn't a promise that tomorrow will be easy. Instead, it asks whether every concern about the coming week really needs our attention tonight.
A few questions for discussion:
- Do you ever experience the Sunday night blues?
- What makes the evening before a working week difficult for you?
- Does writing down tomorrow's tasks help, or do you prefer to forget about them until morning?
- Have you ever found a poem, song or book that helps you unwind?
- Do you think Sunday evenings would feel different if the working week were shorter?
- For those who work different shifts, do you experience the same feeling on another day?
A Poem for the Sunday Night Blues: How to Sleep When the Week Ahead Feels Heavy
What are your thoughts? Feel free to share your experiences, favourite comforting poems or original verses.
Please remember that people may have different reasons for finding sleep or the coming week difficult. This discussion is for sharing experiences rather than providing medical diagnoses.