"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.
"In any event, monastics struggle with demons the like of which you and I hopefully will never have to deal with."
You haven't met some of my clients!