Rational or Irrational?

Ever since the Renaissance and especially after the Enlightenment rational thought has been a central part of our daily lives. Until people started questioning it during the World Wars, it controlled the Western world for a long time. However, that does not mean that it defines us. In my personal opinion, I think the greatest experiences come from irrational actions than rational. Those experiences influence us for a long time, thus defining us. I think a good example of this has been the rationality vs irrationality of the media during this election, because of the controversial Republican candidate with the best hair, Donald Trump. Some people say he will be the next Hitler, others say he will be the greatest president the United States has ever had. I will not talk about my opinions of him, but I do think the media is extremely irrational (and dishonest) when they take excerpts of his speeches and cut certain parts out to intentionally cause bias hatred for the man. For example, he said a 

“total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on" (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/donald-trumps-call-to-ban-muslim-immigrants/419298/). A lot of people took this the wrong way because they didn't look at the "can figure out what is going on." Now, am I sympathizing him? No, don't take it the wrong way from me, but I just wanted to make a point. Irrationality strikes people out more than anything; it makes them pay attention because it makes people question why another person would do what they did. A personal experience I have where irrationality was the main reason for doing it was asking my current girlfriend out as 1) she lives in Northern California and 2) we had only talked via text. But it worked, and we're still dating after over a year. We met each other the first time on our first date, which was at Disneyland. It's irrational as the outcome of it is that I am now in a long-distance relationship, but I fully realized it. That irrational action that I did has affected my life since, more than any other action. But, while the narrator of Notes from Underground never touches on the positives of why he thinks people are defined from their irrational decisions, I will by saying this: if you did something irrational and it makes you happy in the end, then it was worth it; if it doesn't make you happy, then it was a bad mistake.

P.S. sorry about the sudden change of spacing, when I copied the quote it changed the spacing and I don't know how to turn it back :P