<p>This is not the love that leaves when the weather turns,</p><p>not the kind that folds itself quietly and disappears</p><p>the moment something harder than happiness arrives.</p><p>No. Ours is the kind that leans in.</p><p>The kind that looks difficulty in the face</p><p>and says, <strong>I've seen worse. I'm staying.</strong></p><p><br/></p><p>*****</p><p><br/></p><p>This is the love that bears all things.</p><p>not because it has no choice,</p><p>but because it has chosen.</p><p>Over and over. In the morning when I'm difficult.</p><p>In the evening when you are.</p><p>In the long, unglamorous middle of a Tuesday</p><p>when nothing is beautiful</p><p>and we are still here,</p><p>still reaching for each other across the silence.</p><p><br/></p><p>******</p><p><br/></p><p>You are not borrowed to me.</p><p>You are not a season, not a guest,</p><p>not something I am trying on to see how it fits.</p><p>You are the decision I keep making</p><p>every single day I open my eyes</p><p>and find you still breathing beside me.</p><p><br/></p><p>******</p><p><br/></p><p>Our love does not wander.</p><p>It does not slide its eyes sideways</p><p>at what it cannot have,</p><p>does not entertain what it should not entertain.</p><p>When I say you are mine, I mean it</p><p>the way the earth means its roots.</p><p>Not possessive like a cage,</p><p>but certain. Grounded. Sure.</p><p>The jealousy that lives here</p><p>is not the ugly kind.</p><p>It is the quiet, warm kind that says,</p><p><strong>I see what we have. I will not be careless with it.</strong></p><p><br/></p><p>*****</p><p><br/></p><p>And God, the nights.</p><p><br/></p><p>Your arms around me when the cold comes in under the door</p><p>and the world outside is grey and indifferent.</p><p>You pull me in like I am the only warm thing left.</p><p>My face against your bare chest,</p><p>the sound of your heartbeat steadying something in me</p><p>that has been unsteady since before I knew you.</p><p>Your lips at my temple. My jaw. The soft place behind my ear</p><p>where you have learned that I forget everything.</p><p>Your hands tracing me like you wrote me yourself,</p><p>like you are reminding my skin exactly who it belongs to.</p><p>We are tangled and unhurried.</p><p>We are ridiculous and glad.</p><p>We are the kind of people</p><p>who laugh in the middle of kissing</p><p>and do not apologise for it.</p><p><br/></p><p>****</p><p><br/></p><p>This love hopes all things.</p><p>It does not count the wrongs,</p><p>does not file them away for later,</p><p>does not drag last year's wounds</p><p>into this year's arguments.</p><p>It endures... not grimly, not with teeth clenched...</p><p>but with open hands</p><p>and a heart that has decided</p><p>that you are worth the enduring.</p><p><br/></p><p>****</p><p><br/></p><p>We are not perfect.</p><p><br/></p><p>But we are <strong>present</strong>.</p><p>We are looking at each other.</p><p>We are still learning the language of each other's silences,</p><p>still finding new rooms in each other</p><p>we did not know were there.</p><p><br/></p><p>****</p><p><br/></p><p>And on the nights when the winter is loudest,</p><p>when the cold presses its full weight against the glass,</p><p>when the whole world goes dark and indifferent outside.</p><p><br/></p><p>I am here.</p><p><br/></p><p>Chest to chest.</p><p><br/></p><p>Lips to skin.</p><p><br/></p><p>Your heartbeat the only clock I need.</p><p><br/></p><p>*****</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>And I would choose this.</strong></p><p><strong><br/></strong></p><p><strong>Again.</strong></p><p><strong><br/></strong></p><p><strong>And again.</strong></p><p><strong><br/></strong></p><p><strong>And....</strong></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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