<p>Once upon a time,</p><p>my heart bubbled with excitement at the thought that</p><p>I would be doing life with this man. </p><p>Yes, this man, because that's exactly what he has morphed</p><p>into, not the one I had looked at with eyes that carried my heart. </p><p><br/></p><p>Marrying him once felt like the blessing that eclipsed </p><p>every good I had enjoyed in my not so little time on earth. </p><p>But today, that feeling feels like something that never existed,</p><p>like I imagined the excitement, the glee and butterflies.</p><p>My marriage is not one of white picket fences and </p><p>a happily ever after but a descent from cloud nine </p><p>to earth, to reality, to now. </p><p><br/></p><p>This is not the regular case of a cheating husband whose</p><p>pants couldn't keep his manhood in check. </p><p>Thing is: man is as faithful as can be but I guess the domesticity </p><p>that marriage demands, the true reality of building a home with</p><p>another grown adult happened. <br/></p><p><br/></p><p>The reality I find myself doesn't hold the tiniest shred of the life </p><p>I had hoped marrying this man would offer. The contrast is staggering </p><p>and that is me putting it lightly. Five years in, and I'm already wanting out.</p><p><br/></p><p>The romance my unmarried self dreamed of has become </p><p>a dream in this drab of a journey that is believed to span forever. </p><p>But this journey has become a long monotonous trek of </p><p>the rinse and repeat cycle of routines. This can't be how the </p><p>rest of my life goes. </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.