<p>Hear me out.</p><p>No really.</p><p>Before you judge me, before you call it dramatic, before you call me too much.</p><p>Listen to “Un-break my heart… by Tony Braxton ” while you read this.</p><p>Let it loop in your head.</p><p>Let it ache.</p><p>Because that is how I love.</p><p>I don’t love in halves.</p><p>I don’t love in moderation.</p><p>My brain doesn’t have a dimmer switch it’s either fluorescent obsession or complete darkness.</p><p>And when you loved me, it was the first time the noise quieted.</p><p>You don’t understand what that means.</p><p>My mind is a room with too many radios playing at once.</p><p>Memories interrupt each other.</p><p>Feelings overlap.</p><p>Sadness sits in the corner like a permanent resident who forgot to leave years ago.</p><p>But you </p><p>you were a single frequency.</p><p>Clear.</p><p>Loud.</p><p>Addicting.</p><p>I hyperfocused on you the way other girls hyperfocus on hobbies.</p><p>Your laugh.</p><p>The way your jaw tensed when you were angry.</p><p>The exact time you stopped texting back that night 11:37 p.m. I remember because I replay it like a scratched record.</p><p>You were not just love.</p><p>You were stimulation.</p><p>You were dopamine.</p><p>You were proof that I could feel something other than exhaustion.</p><p>And maybe that wasn’t fair to you.</p><p>But you said you loved me.</p><p>Do you know what that does to a girl who already feels like she’s too loud, too scattered, too heavy to hold?</p><p>It feels like oxygen.</p><p>So when you pulled away slowly, subtly, cruelly </p><p>my mind did what it does best.</p><p>It spiraled.</p><p>Was I too much?</p><p>Too sad?</p><p>Too distracted?</p><p>Too intense?</p><p>Did I text too often?</p><p>Not enough?</p><p>Did you get bored?</p><p>Did you ever really love me or did you just like being needed?</p><p>I replayed every conversation like evidence in a trial where I am both the criminal and the judge.</p><p>Depression tells me I ruin everything.</p><p>ADHD tells me to obsess over how.</p><p>And somewhere between those two voices, your absence grew teeth.</p><p>You broke my heart in a quiet way.</p><p>Not with shouting.</p><p>Not with betrayal.</p><p>But with distance.</p><p>And distance is the cruelest thing you can give someone who already lives inside her own head.</p><p>Now my mind is loud again.</p><p>Too loud.</p><p>And I hate that I would still choose you.</p><p>I hate that if you walked back in and said, “I love you,”</p><p>my brain would light up like a city after a blackout.</p><p>Because loving you felt like purpose.</p><p>Like direction.</p><p>Like all my scattered thoughts had somewhere to land.</p><p>So unbreak my heart.</p><p>Say you love me again even if it’s reckless.</p><p>Even if it’s wrong.</p><p>Even if it ruins me twice.</p><p>Because being shattered by you felt better</p><p>than being numb alone.</p><p>And maybe that’s the most dangerous thing about me.</p><p>I don’t fear the storm.</p><p>I fear the silence after it leaves.</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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