<p>"<strong>Get out of my house, you have no place in this world."</strong></p><p><strong>"Why is she so quiet? She's dangerous. I don't like her!"</strong></p><p><br/></p><p>Those words didn’t kill me, but something inside me died that day.</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>Trauma... What is trauma?</strong></p><p>Psychologically: Trauma is not what happened to you, but what happened as a result of what happened to you.</p><p><br/></p><p>At that age, I never thought the word trauma actually existed, but I was familiar with the word numb. I became numb to my own feelings and separated myself from my body because it was too painful to be in it. I didn’t want to share the same mindset with myself.</p><p><br/></p><p>I went around seeking... <strong>Validation.</strong></p><p>For a moment, my nervous system forgot what safety feels like. 🥺</p><p>I lost my tears. My lacrimal glands stopped producing them. ☺</p><p><br/></p><p>I developed a pure hatred for the world. I had so many insecurities, and I hated the very womb I came from.</p><p><br/></p><p>I understood the phrase: <strong>Villains aren’t born, but made.</strong></p><p>Because I became a terror to myself.</p><p>Once a little girl with the biggest heart, one who loved unconditionally, became hatred herself... because I started hating unbelievably.</p><p><br/></p><p>Once a beautiful mirror turned into a dangerous weapon the moment I got broken. My emotions got mixed up.</p><p><br/></p><p>Others: Why do you smile so much?</p><p>Me: A smile can hide so much pain inside it.</p><p><br/></p><p>I became a Joker myself. I developed a smile not because I loved it, but because I was tired of being called a sadist. It spared me from the questions, and I became so manipulative that I made people drown in my illusion.</p><p>Once the one who got broken, became the one who pierced others with her broken glass.</p><p><br/></p><p>I lied when I said, "I loved being alone in my room." My room itself knows I disliked it because I got chased out of the world I should have belonged to.</p><p>My bed hated when I came close because it knew it was a second choice... forced to be with me! I forced it to hear me, but never gave it a chance to speak.</p><p><br/></p><p>I was fine for a moment because I had someone to transfer my aggression onto.</p><p><br/></p><p>My shadow hid from me because it got scared of me. My own reflection couldn’t believe itself.</p><p><br/></p><p>Others: Do you journal at night?</p><p>Me: Why should I? When my memories live rent-free in my head.</p><p>Others: Have you ever gone out to see a movie?</p><p>Me: Why should I? When the sun retires and the moon gets dimmed, my memories come alive. They give themselves a role to play. Each pain has a character to imitate.</p><p><br/></p><p>I once loved when people hurt me. Because the more you hurt me, the more vengeful I became. And the more vengeful I became, the more vengeance knocked at your door.</p><p>I became psychopathic. I learned how to memorize my family’s footsteps. I stopped being emotional.</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>HEALING!!!</strong></p><p>To escape the prison, I became numb to the fact that I was in prison. I had to silence my awareness.</p><p>I became proud of myself because no one knows what it’s like to be me.</p><p>I had no option but to heal. I got stabbed countless times, but I grew to know one thing: As long as the knife goes in, I must be willing to pull it out, stop the bleeding, and keep a bandage on the surface.</p><p><br/></p><p>To heal, I had no choice but to forget and forgive them.</p><p><br/></p><p>Definitely, there are people close to you who need healing. All I can recommend is—<strong>GOD</strong>!</p><p><br/></p><p>I just hope we learn that Home should be a safe haven, not a battlefield.</p><p><br/></p><p>During my spiritual therapy session, the greatest psychotherapist made me understand that "God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers."</p><p>I am that one strongest girl you’ll ever come across...</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>Why? You ask.</strong></p><p>You saw my cracks? You kiddinggggg? No one knows how to hide their pieces better than I do! 🙂</p><p><br/></p>
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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 7 people with the best insights in the past month. The 7 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.
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.
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.
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.
All-time Contributors
All-time Engagers
Top Monthly Contributors
Top Monthly Engagers
Most Active Colleges
Contributor Score
The all-time ranking is based on users' Contributor Score, which is a measure of all
the engagement and exposure a contributor's content receives.
Here is a list of metrics that are used to calcuate your contributor score, arranged from
the metric with the highest weighting, to the one with the lowest weighting.
1
Subscriptions received
2
Tips received
3
Comments (excluding replies)
4
Upvotes
5
Views
6
Number of insights published
Engagement Score
The All-time Engagers ranking is based on a user's Engagement Score — a measure of how much a
user engages with other users' content via comments and upvotes.
Here is a list of metrics that are used to calcuate the Engagement Score, arranged from
the metric with the highest weighting, to the one with the lowest weighting.
1
A user's comments (excluding replies & said user's comments on their own content)
2
A user's upvotes
Monthly Score
The Top Monthly Contributors ranking is a monthly metric indicating how users respond to your posts, not just how many you publish.
We look at three main things:
1
How strong your best post is —
Your highest-scoring post this month carries the most weight. One great post can take you far.
2
How consistent the engagement you receive is —
We also look at the average score of all your posts. If your work keeps getting good reactions, you get a boost.
3
How consistent the engagement you receive is —
Posting more helps — but only a little.
Extra posts give a small bonus that grows slowly, so quality always matters more than quantity.
In simple terms:
A great post beats many ignored posts
Consistently engaging posts beat one lucky hit
Spamming low-engagement posts won't help
Tips, comments, and upvotes from others matter most
This ranking is designed to reward
Thoughtful, high-quality posts
Real engagement from the community
Consistency over time — without punishing you for posting again
The Top Monthly Contributors leaderboard reflects what truly resonates, not just who posts the most.
Top Monthly Engagers
The Top Monthly Engagers ranking tracks the most active engagers on a monthly basis
Here is what we look at
1
A user's monthly comments (excluding replies & said user's comments on their own content)
2
A user's monthly upvotes
Most Active Colleges
The Most Active Colleges ranking is a list of the most active contributors on TwoCents, grouped by the
colleges/universities they attend(ed)
Here is what we look at
1
All insights posted by contributors that attended a particular school (at both undergraduate or postgraduate levels)
2
All comments posted by contributors that attended a particular school (at both undergraduate or postgraduate levels) —
excluding replies
Below is a list of badges on TwoCents and their designations.
Comments