<p>I choose to love you in silence, for in silence there are no unanswered questions, no trembling confessions, no fear of hearing words that could unravel everything I have built within my heart. Silence asks for nothing and demands even less. It allows me to love you without expecting to be loved in return.</p><p><br/></p><p>I choose to love you in solitude, for in solitude you are mine in the only way I have ever dared to claim you, not by possession, but by devotion. No one can compete with the version of you that lives within me, untouched by the world and untouched by disappointment. There, your smile never fades, your voice never grows distant, and your presence never becomes a memory.</p><p><br/></p><p>I choose to adore you from afar, for distance is kinder than reality. It protects me from discovering that perhaps I was never meant to be the person your heart searched for. Distance preserves hope where closeness might have buried it. It allows me to admire you without asking you to carry the weight of my affection.</p><p><br/></p><p>I choose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips and freer than my hands. It reaches you without permission, brushes against your face without explanation, and leaves before it can be rejected. Perhaps one day, when a gentle breeze lingers on your skin, it will carry a fragment of the love I neverfound the courage to speak.</p><p><br/></p><p>I choose to hold your hand only in my dreams, for dreams are merciful. They do not remind me of impossible circumstances or unanswered prayers. In dreams, your fingers find mine without hesitation. In dreams, your eyes meet mine without uncertainty. In dreams, love does not have to justify its existence.</p><p><br/></p><p>I choose to write your name where no one else will ever read it, betwen the lines of my prayers, in the quiet pauses between heartbeats, and in the hidden corners of my soul. For some names are too sacred to be spoken carelessly. Some loves are too profound to survive the light of day.</p><p><br/></p><p>If loving you means carrying this feeling alone, then let loneliness become my closest companion. I will wear it as others wear jewelry, not because it is beautiful, but because it reminds me that my heart once found someone worth aching for.</p><p><br/></p><p>I ask for nothing from you. Not your promises, not your time, not even your love. To love you has already been both my greatest blessing and my quietest sorrow. You owe me nothing for a gift I chose to give freely.</p><p><br/></p><p>And if one day you never know how deeply you were loved, that too will be enough. Not every love story is meant to be told. Some are written only in silent glances, whispered prayers, sleepless nights, and letters that are never sent.</p><p><br/></p><p>So I will continue to love you in silence, because silence cannot reject me.</p><p><br/></p><p>I will continue to love you in solitude, because solitude never asks me to let you go.</p><p><br/></p><p>I will continue to love you from a distance, because distance cannot break what it never held.</p><p><br/></p><p>I will continue to kiss you in the wind, hoping that somewhere, somehow, it reaches you.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I will continue to love you in my dreams, because there, no sunrise steals you from me, no goodbye is ever spoken, and no ending has the power to exist.</p><p><br/></p><p>For perhaps the purest love is not the one that is returned, but the one that remains unwavering even when it asks for nothing, content simply to exist, quietly, faithfully, forever.</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 contentโuse it instead to correct grammar, improve flow, enhance structure, and boost clarity.
4
Explore audio contentโhigh-quality audio insights can significantly boost your chances of standing out.
5
Use eye-catching cover imagesโif 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.