To be or not to be...that is the question

Should we be like Benedictine monks or not? And just how many people are like Benedictine monks nowadays? We get so caught up in our stuff and ourselves and forget to serve others, pray to God, worship him, and take things a little slower. No, I don't think everyone's called to separate themselves from the outside world, but I think that they had a lot of good principles that we should put into practice today. Essentially, they were following the bible. I thought it was interesting how they ordered the commands. First of all, you should love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and your neighbor as yourself and then you were to follow the 10 commandments. A lot of these ideas of giving up everything we own and having our freedom taken away from us seems foreign for the most part. Especially considering where we live. But I think that obedience is better than apathy any day.