<p>I'm colder than usual.</p><p>Heat is foreign to my toes,</p><p>my fingers tremble like they’ve lost memory of touch.</p><p>There’s something stirring inside me...</p><p>not pain,</p><p>not numbness,</p><p>just a frostbite brewing beneath my skin,</p><p>settling quietly at the core of my heart.</p><p><br/></p><p>I walk through the day wrapped in clothes</p><p>but never in comfort.</p><p>Blankets can’t reach what’s freezing inside.</p><p>Laughter feels distant,</p><p>like it's echoing from behind thick glass.</p><p>I smile, but it doesn’t melt anything.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe a hug could fix this.</p><p>But not just any hug.</p><p>I need one that crushes the space between us.</p><p>A hug so deep my bones stop shaking.</p><p>A hug that feels like shelter</p><p>when everything inside me feels like a blizzard.</p><p><br/></p><p>I have an itch to be held,</p><p>by arms bigger than mine,</p><p>muscles stronger than mine,</p><p>a chest I can rest against,</p><p>long enough to forget how empty I’ve been feeling.</p><p><br/></p><p>I want to disappear into someone’s warmth,</p><p>someone who won’t flinch at my silence,</p><p>someone who sees the icicles in my words</p><p>and stays anyway.</p><p>No questions, no fixing.</p><p>Just presence, pressure and peace.</p><p><br/></p><p>Please just hold me.</p><p>Wrap me up like you mean it.</p><p>Like you’ve been waiting to.</p><p>Like you can feel the cold seeping out of me.</p><p>And maybe—just maybe</p><p>if you hold me long enough,</p><p>this pain inside me will fade.</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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