In fact, considering that we spend more time dead than alive - we may live to be 100 but we are classified as "dead" forever after - it is perhaps a more natural state.
Terry Moffitt's paper on the link between childhood self-control and adults' status decades later is published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
If I see a Reebok official who may not be in the best shape firing the starting pistol and Carl Lewis wearing Nike shoes, I'm going to go with Carl because that's the authentic link.
Although nothing unworldly occurs between the two individuals, it seems like they behave in different time frames, and do not understand each other on a normal mundane level.