Someone who hasn't had their idealism crushed at an early age. Someone who was willing to "play the game" back before I had to do all these "make up games" in life. Also, someone who didn't have bad vision and terrible hearing (bombs don't help hearing problems it turns out).
For the most part, however, it's difficult to choose much beyond that. Idealism has an expiration date, so I'd just be delaying the inevitable. Were I more willing to "play the game" my personality would obviously be quite different and I'm not sure I actually want that. The bad hearing and vision however I would gladly trade for better options. Contacts bug the hell out of me but I have to wear them to fence (putting that mask on with glasses is actually fairly difficult, assuming you don't want to smudge the hell out of the glasses), and glasses have their downsides (my vision is poor enough that if my glasses drop off my dresser in the night I actually have to feel around for them. I could rectify that by getting glasses with more obvious frames I suppose). Not being able to hear well sucks - I routinely need to get people to repeat things; makes me feel like an old man.
For the most part, however, it's difficult to choose much beyond that. Idealism has an expiration date, so I'd just be delaying the inevitable. Were I more willing to "play the game" my personality would obviously be quite different and I'm not sure I actually want that. The bad hearing and vision however I would gladly trade for better options. Contacts bug the hell out of me but I have to wear them to fence (putting that mask on with glasses is actually fairly difficult, assuming you don't want to smudge the hell out of the glasses), and glasses have their downsides (my vision is poor enough that if my glasses drop off my dresser in the night I actually have to feel around for them. I could rectify that by getting glasses with more obvious frames I suppose). Not being able to hear well sucks - I routinely need to get people to repeat things; makes me feel like an old man.
). But I mean to be able to play from ear, or straight from sheet music, straight away, regardless of how "difficult" the song is... as long as it's for piano of course. 
