A thing that has always boggled me about all this "spiritual awakening" and being "enlightened" kind of talk is that if the purpose for us humans is to become more spiritually "awake" and receive a higher state of mental clearance, then why do we decay (aging) and by then unavoidably end up becoming weaker both mentally and physically with time? We always hear about this "become better with time" and become "mentally stronger" with time etc. yet our brain is literally rotting away with time - causing it break down and give us horrible diseases such as Alzheimers, Parkinson etc. That really doesn't seem to correspond with all this "healing" stuff imo. Like, if we don't die by suicide, then our faith is most likely to end op with a broken down Alzheimers-brain in some nursing home while wearing diapers - how much "spiritual awakening" is there in an end like that? Doesn't make sense to me...