What sort of people become monks or nuns?
All sorts of people become monks or nuns. People of every nation and social class. If you don’t count Antarctica (and penguins don’t seem to be clamoring to enter monasteries), our Order has monasteries in every continent of the world. All sorts of personalities enter the monastery; introverts and extroverts; workers, thinkers, doers and dreamers; nerds, doctors and plumbers (would that we had more of them); urbanites, suburbanites and farmers; the cool and the clueless. A community, like any group, needs a variety of members of differing gifts and personalities.
