<p>Everything around me tells me to walk my own path</p><p>Even my body betrays me because there's a voice in my head that keeps saying you have a greater purpose</p><p>Why tell me when it cannot show me ?</p><p>Why place the burden of the unknown on my shoulders</p><p>So now I have to find something I should've stumbled upon</p><p>Now I have to dig for a tunnel, when I haven't seen a light</p><p>Why? Why tell me that I'm more, that there's something bigger than myself inside of me when I still feel so small?</p><p>Why torment me with a future I haven't shaped with my present so how can I picture it?</p><p>I keep telling myself if the pressure was external at least I could walk away from the noise</p><p>But what happens now that my inner voice won't rest until I see a hidden thread</p><p>It's not my fault that I'm walking a path over trudged</p><p>It's not my fault that I follow the waves rather than defy them</p><p>It's not my fault that I looked at life and didn't see options</p><p>It's not my fault that ordinary is my normal</p><p>So why won't you let me dine in my ignorance</p><p>If I'm made for more</p><p>If I'm really made for more</p><p>Then why can't more find me?</p><p>Because truly I haven't searched because I don't see a variety to browse</p><p>So maybe I won't work towards it if I don't believe</p><p>Maybe I won't believe that my dreams are bigger than me if you don't whisper</p><p>But since you seem to know so well why not tell what path I'm supposed to take to this future you claim is waiting for me</p><p>If you truly cannot do that</p><p>If you only saw my future but not what brought me there</p><p>How sure are you that it isn't my present that led to it?</p><p>Stop shouting at me for a minute and answer</p><p>So maybe I've replaced dreams with imaginations</p><p>Maybe I've replaced passion with silence</p><p>Maybe my voice is hibernating or maybe it's germinating</p><p>But who are you to tell me that the way I move is not the way</p><p>So maybe I get lost a few hundred times, but at least I discover hidden corners that no else has been and still I always make it back home</p><p>So maybe I lack everything you saw in the future me</p><p>But maybe she came from nothing, so if I am that nothing I still am something</p><p>The light shines brighter when you've spent years in a dark room</p><p>Knowledge feels like salvation when ignorance is the only air you've breathed</p><p>So don't tell what to be</p><p>Stop whispering in my ear that I'm not doing good enough</p><p>I'm waking everyday and trying</p><p>Sometimes I breakdown crying</p><p>It's just that I'm not seeing</p><p>And I cannot fathom what I cannot even see</p><p>How do I dissect an unknown</p><p>How do I walk towards the light when I'm still trapped in a dark room</p><p>So maybe I just haven't found the handle on the door</p><p>Maybe I just have to learn to understand the darkness to appreciate the light</p><p>I know you mean well but your voice haunts me</p><p>If I'm really everything I ought to be</p><p>Then I will be</p><p>Perhaps that woman would not be without the girl that I am today</p><p>So don't rush my process</p><p>Don't push me to break just to become</p><p>Just let me be me</p>
At the end of the month, we give out prizes in 3 categories: Best Content, Top Engagers and
Most Engaged Content.
Best Content
Top Engagers
Most Engaged Content
Best Content
We give out cash prizes to between 7 and 20 community members with the best insights in the past month.
The winners are picked by an in-house selection process.
The winners are NOT picked from the leaderboards/rankings, we choose winners based on the quality, originality
and insightfulness of their content.
Here are a few other things to know for the Best Content track
1
Quality over Quantity — You stand a higher chance of winning by publishing a few really good insights across the entire month,
rather than a lot of low-quality, spammy posts.
2
Share original, authentic, and engaging content that clearly reflects your voice, thoughts, and opinions.
3
Avoid using AI to generate content—use it instead to correct grammar, improve flow, enhance structure, and boost clarity.
4
Explore audio content—high-quality audio insights can significantly boost your chances of standing out.
5
Use eye-catching cover images—if your content doesn't attract attention, it's less likely to be read or engaged with.
6
Share your content in your social circles to build engagement around it.
Top Engagers
For the Top Engagers Track, we award the top 3 people who engage the most with other user's content via
comments.
The winners are picked using the "Top Monthly Engagers" tab on the rankings page.
Most Engaged Content
The Most Engaged Content recognizes users whose content received the most engagement during the month.
We pick the top 3.
The winners are picked using the "Top Monthly Contributors" tab on the rankings page.
Contributor Rankings
The Rankings/Leaderboard shows the Top 20 contributors and engagers on TwoCents a monthly and all-time basis
— as well as the most active colleges (users attending/that attended those colleges)
The all-time contributors ranking is based on the Contributor Score, which is a measure of all the engagement and exposure a contributor's content receives.
The monthly contributors ranking tracks performance of a user's insights for the current month. The monthly and all-time scores are calcuated DIFFERENTLY.
This page also shows the top engagers on an all-time & monthly basis.
Below is a list of badges on TwoCents and their designations.
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