Belief in Virtue is more important than Virtue itself

Just pause for a second from your daily life. The life that you are so desperately trying to organise, to make worthy, to make grand. The future plans that you are putting together, the aspiration and the fantasies; put them aside and think about this-

"We spend a lot of time trying to organize the world, we build clocks and calendars and we try to predict the weather but what part of our life is truly under our control. What if we choose to exist purely in our reality of our own making, does that render us insane. If that does, isn't that better than a life of despair?"

Rationality and irrationality is purely subjective. Also what's better is only a matter of how deeply you apply your thoughts to it. If being happy and content is all that you want in life, then isn't living an insane life in a world of your own, the perfect thing for you. The problem with us is that we don't know what we actually want, and when we do, we hate to accept them and instead conceal them in some virtuous thoughts. What matters is not the virtue but how much you believe in this virtue because at the end of the day the only person you are answerable to is your own self.

We plan so much. think so much about the next step, about our future, the all important career; but what part do we actually control. All we are, is slave to some higher being. Mere puppets with no strings in our control. Then why do we turn ourselves into control freaks. Making clones, Stem cells, Seismic alerts, Tsunami warnings Artificial life and countless other activities trying to prove our dominance. But then we witness a Japan. Devastation that makes us realise of our vulnerabilities and ineffectiveness in trying to be the master of our own lives.

To make the best of all we have, we should create a world of our own. Live by our own principles, have our own set of virtues and abide by them. What matters is only our belief, because it's the only sign of existence. An we don't need to prove this existence to anyone else but our own. Making peace with oneself is all we need to achieve, doing anything more is not possible.
You have faith in rationality, apply your rational thoughts and ponder over this-

"Could it be how rational thought destroys your soul?
Could it be about the triumph of rationality and the power that is in that?"