Do you think about this stuff, too?

To what extent do you think we participate in creating the reality we experience? Do we attract people and situations to us, or are happenings just random? How do we attract them? By our thoughts? By karma? What is karma?  How about prayer and ritual? Does it work? If so, how does it work? Do angels or astral elementals make it happen? Does God make it happen? Do we make it happen? Are we God? Who decides which answer is accurate? What about free will? Does that exist or is that an illusion, too? Or do you even think about this stuff?