"But even so, I have to say this thing really is incredibly useful. Even if it's only glimpses, that's still pretty good." Heath happily put it away. He had just thought it over and realized something: this thing might actually be even more useful than he had imagined. After all, it let him see glimpses of what happened after different choices.
Ultimately, life was about reaching different endings through one choice after another, just like playing a game. Sometimes, it was precisely because people did not know the outcomes of different choices that "if only I'd known" and "I really regret it" became sworn siblings, never to part.
But what if he could know in advance? Even if he only saw glimpses, that was already impressive enough. That was why Heath thought this thing really was a miraculous tool, an extraordinary one. He quite liked it himself. In the future, if there was something he needed to consider, he could turn it into a multiple-choice question. For example, if he was thinking about his relationship with his girlfriend Cynthia, he could turn it into a choice like [Where should my relationship with Cynthia go?] [Get married] [Don't get married]. That way, he could find out what endings different choices would lead to.
What was more, there were plenty of other choices, such as [Should I expose Mr. Giovanni's identity?] or [Should I go out to buy groceries or lottery tickets today?]. From something as small as which bottle of a drink to buy to win a free bottle, to a major life event like marriage, they were all ultimately choices. What had left the deepest impression on Heath was his time as a student: after the college entrance exams, choosing a school and a major had been a problem too.