Granted, but they haven't lived in the trenches of the arena of the world and had to pray their way through like you and me. God gives to each what is necessary to conform us to the image of His Son who had to fight like we do in this world and then told us to live like He did trusting and praying through.
"Granted, but they haven't lived in the trenches of the arena of the world and had to pray their way through like you and me."
Actually, in the East, especially in Russia and Greece, most monastics profess later in life. For eample, of the 14 or so nuns in the monastry outside my family's village in Greece, 12 were professional women living in the world before they entered the monastery. In any event, monastics struggle with demons the like of which you and I hopefully will never have to deal with.