Taking a look at the open-ended command bar, a million ideas fill your brain: you could make yourself rich, beautiful, have a sexy husband, anything your heart desires! Those possibilities, of course, assume that this app isn’t some big practical joke. You’d rather start with something small, however, and something that interests you beyond the no-brainers of money or beauty. Changing reality could also be an opportunity to explore possibilities you otherwise couldn’t, examining the many roads you did not or could not have taken.
“How about…I make it so I never became principal?” You ask yourself quietly. “I always wondered what would have happened if I didn’t get the job five years ago…”
Deciding to satisfy your curiosity, you get to typing.
SUBJECT: USER
ALTER REALITY: ON
AWARENESS OF USE: ON
/USER never became a HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL/
Pressing enter, you immediately find yourself in an empty classroom. Your clothes are different, now a bit more sensual for a school (a bright red top with a low neckline along with a black skirt). There’s more makeup on your face, and your hair is a lot longer. For a brief moment, you’re confused, but then it hits you: you’re a just teacher! It’s tough, but you can still remember the way reality ought to be, with you as principal, but now memories of this new reality come in. Every stood the same until you, a very-respected English teacher, applied to become the school principal. The change is that you botched your interview to become the school’s principal, and so you just remained a teacher instead! Now, you suddenly have five additional years of teaching plopped into your brain, and those five years are completely different from what they should be. You got a bigger classroom two years ago. All of your relationships are changed, since you are not as important. You have a boyfriend now, Francis, who is also a teacher. You hate the current principal, that sexist pig Terry Mortimer who always comments on your appearance. Your life is completely different life now! The app works!
“My goodness…I really am just a teacher now…” you say, stunned. “The last five years…that’s reality now…”