yes, prayer is right. in fact i've begun to believe that every single
act of ours is in one sense, a prayer - not to any specific deity, but
maybe in a more abstract sense to what the Greeks called eudaimonia,
the quest for happiness in our lives, our own and the lives of those
that are so closely intertwined with our own that the distinctions of
self and other cease to really matter. in most cases, and i'm
reasonably certain in ours as well, eudaimonia is to be sought in a
perfect admixture of chaos and order, and the moment one begins to
overwhelm the other, discomforts begin to manifest themselves. and so
it goes..