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EPISODE · Aug 18, 2026 · 7 MIN

What Is the Sunday Evening Feeling?

from The School of Life · host tscol

Sunday evenings have a particular atmosphere, where nostalgia mixes with dread. A lot of the emotion is at heart about a background sense that we haven’t found the meaning of our lives – and that time is running out for us. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/nuahH Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/Q38Nq FURTHER READING “It descends, normally, between around 5pm and 7.30pm and can be at its height at six, especially when the weather is turning and the last of the daylight has burnished the sky a shade of crimson pink. The Sunday evening feeling is ordinarily associated with work, and the idea of going back to an office after a pleasant break. But this doesn’t quite cover the complexity of what is going on: it isn’t just that we have some sort of work to do that is dragging down our mood, but that we are going back to the wrong sort of work even while we are in dire ignorance of what the right sort of work might actually be…” You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://goo.gl/ga4BSm MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://goo.gl/GpkFLq Watch more films on WORK and CAPITALISM in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLcapitalism SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ X: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Cub Animation http://cubanimation.com #TheSchoolOfLife Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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