The Page

Few write on it a secret they've never told anyone. I murdered my first wife. Or some shocking political confession. Peace was almost achieved and I alone ruined it

Many deliberate all their lives and in the end leave a blank page (Source)

You are given only one page. Only what you write on it will be preserved for future generations. The page is blank. What will you write? Many deliberate all their lives and in the end leave a blank page. Many others write pages of no interest - these are categorized as clichés of their time and have no value to science except for statistics. Others try to cram so much in, sometimes in coded language and acronyms, that no one understands them. Some simply quote someone else. A beloved poem (usually bad). Or a page from holy scriptures. Few utilize the page for interesting writing. Many rebel against the page altogether: they turn it into a ball and throw it in the trash, or into a paper airplane they fly out the window, burn it in a fit of rage or just scribble a crude joke on it like in public restrooms. Simon was here. Or they draw a smiling cat. Few write on it a secret they've never told anyone. I murdered my first wife. Or some shocking political confession. Peace was almost achieved and I alone ruined it. Few take the subject seriously and draft sketches all their lives until some final result, usually particularly tedious. In the end, despite the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity given to them, people don't really have anything to say to the future. And here, your page too, another word or two, is finished.