[It's hard to talk about things out loud when they don't quite make sense in your head. Sometimes you need to think about them for a while first. Sometimes it just feels like there's no sense in repeating the obvious, in saying things that you know will worry the people you care about. Still, Goku finds he almost always feels better afterwards.]

Me? [He just said he needed to try more too, but he still wasn't expecting he conversation to turn around on him like that.] ... I did some prayers the other day, to try it out. Nia and Nephenee helped me. [Hakkai seems to know everyone in The Far Shore. Goku assumes he knows them too.] ... It felt nice, helpin' people out like that.

[Like he was accomplishing something. It doesn't do much to help his own goals, but at least he could help someone else. Nia was happy about it too; that's worth something.]

... I went to that meeting place with everyone else, because I thought... Maybe Sanzo would show up too. [Obviously, he didn't. Even if Goku had kept that from Hakkai, he surely would have heard gunfire by now.] I talked to a buncha other people instead.

[Which was nice. Keeping himself busy and talking to people helps immensely.]

... I dunno, I feel like I've been slacking off even though I've been doing a bunch of stuff. It's weird.