<p><br/></p><p>You still don’t get “love”.</p><p> It’s ridiculous.</p><p>You hated the concept of it.</p><p>Maybe that was why you disliked romance.</p><p>The movies.</p><p>The books.</p><p>They were all about it.</p><p>They all revolved around love.</p><p>It was stupid.</p><p>Weird and cringe.</p><p>Filled with propaganda depicting love in a way it was never going to be.</p><p>Fantasy sold as truth.</p><p>Disguised as happily ever after.</p><p>And people still got fooled by it.</p><p>What was love anyways.</p><p>Because people made it seem like a fairytale.</p><p>Like it was worth everything.</p><p>Like it was worth that much.</p><p>Worth throwing your life away because of another person.</p><p>Devoting your life to another person who wasn’t entirely devoted to you.</p><p>People think it’s so beautiful but it really isn’t.</p><p>You’d seen people.</p><p> Heard their stories.</p><p>And seen what love had done to them.</p><p>It was bad.</p><p>It drained them.</p><p>Drains their will.</p><p>Feeds off their pain and their emotions.</p><p>It’s parasitic.</p><p>Painful.</p><p>Inconvenient.</p><p>It stripped you down till your happiness depended on another person existence.</p><p>And somehow people still saw all that as beautiful.</p><p>And when they eventually left.</p><p>You were left hurt.</p><p>Broken.</p><p>Then came the tears.</p><p>Then you forgetting how to live.</p><p>How you lived before they waltzed into your life different from how they waltzed out.</p><p>Society lies about a lot of things.</p><p>They tell you love is beautiful.</p><p>But they don’t talk about the dependence that comes with it.</p><p>The pain.</p><p>They say love is blind shouldn’t that be taken as a warning?</p><p>How was losing yourself in someone considered romantic?</p><p>They didn’t tell you in love your happiness was tied to the other.</p><p>Instead they told you and made you believe it was a beautiful thing.</p><p>All day, everyday.</p><p>If it’s so selfless why does it ask for so much of you?</p><p>If it’s so pure why does it fade?</p><p>If it’s unconditional why do people in love fall out and their relationship end?</p><p>If you ask me it’s just another social construct.</p><p>Because tell me why the greatest proof of love had to be how much you’re willing to endure all in the sake of it?</p><p>If love isn’t possesive why does jealousy exist?</p><p>Come to think of it is jealousy really an insecurity or an evidence of love?</p><p>Was the problem really love itself or its unhealthy attachments?</p><p>Why was everyone expected to fall in love?</p><p>When you think about love a song comes to you.</p><p>“I Love You “, by Amma.</p><p>It’s about a girl lost in love.</p><p>Emotionally tied to someone who may never choose her.</p><p>It’s in contrast with your thoughts.</p><p>And it also raised a lot of questions.</p><p>“Believing we can happen is the only hope that I hold on to”</p><p>Why should hope be the only thing keeping you?</p><p>“You make me change my ways in ways that I don’t want to”</p><p>Why are you calling that love wasn’t that losing yourself?</p><p>Why was becoming less of yourself proof of loving someone more?</p><p>So you tell me why should I willingly choose that.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></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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