If I were to create the ideal person I would give them the ability to live in the moment. Because Errol suffers from Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome he is unable to live anywhere but precisely in the present.
In order to survive we humans are programmed to think outside of the moment; to reflect on the past and to plan into the future. But this very survival mechanism takes us away from the perfect present and keeps us constantly elsewhere. Errol would not survive in the wild (not that anyone under 21 would) but because of his very inability to think ahead or behind, he is able to live exactly in this wonderful moment. He already has the very thing I most desire into he world; peaceful happiness, and he shares it with all those who are lucky enough to know him.
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