You cannot choose to be enlightened. In Buddhism it's called 佛缘, and Christianity, 拣选.
However, you can reverse engineer and understand why you are stuck in the shithole.
The first thing that grabs you away from enlightenment is your desire. So the Buddhist monks seek to abstain from desires arbitrarily. The
Christians are clueless and pray to God to fulfill their desires, when it's clearly written in the Book of James that: