When in doubt, go down the rabbit hole

Here’s a little experiment to see what Alice would have to say to Mary Oliver’s question in her beautiful poem - “The Summer Day”.

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

Alice:

“What a curious question! I hardly know what I plan to do today, at least I know what I was supposed to do this morning, but my plans have changed several times since then. But I know what I ought not to do. I do not plan to cry so much as to drown myself in my own tears. A great girl like me should not go on crying like that. I do not plan to eat things without proper labels as I never know how it will change me. I got so tired of changing several times in a day. And I never plan to go near the queen’s croquet ground because the game is so unfair. And when I am the Duchess I will not have pepper in my kitchen. There, if I know what I do not plan to do I would think everything else is what I will plan to do.”