No way of life is better, in itself, than any other. Each way is the best for us if it is the one to which we have been called. What counts is how we live our lives, how we carry out the promise of our baptism, because it was in baptism that we began our lifelong journey to holiness. The spiritual journey is a constant process of renewal. We try, we fail, we get up and try again.
Baptism is a sacrament of continual beginnings.
As adults, our baptism, if it has any real meaning for us, has to be expressed in the way we live our daily lives. When we were baptized, we became members of Jesus' own family. From then on Jesus had to matter to us, and matter supremely. Jesus has to become the context out of which we live. Of course, this does not happen all at once.