Things I thought I knew until life taught me otherwise
<p>THINGS I THOUGHT I KNEW UNTIL LIFE TAUGHT ME OTHERWISE.</p><p><br/></p><p>There was a time I thought I understood life.</p><p><br/></p><p>I thought good intentions were enough.</p><p>I thought if I loved people sincerely, they would love me the same way.</p><p>I thought hard work always came with immediate rewards.</p><p>I thought the people I called friends would always remain friends.</p><p><br/></p><p>I was wrong about many things.</p><p><br/></p><p>Life has a quiet way of correcting you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes, it doesn't shout. It simply lets you experience what you once thought could never happen to you.</p><p><br/></p><p>I have learned that people can love you and still hurt you.</p><p><br/></p><p>That you can give your best and still not get the outcome you hoped for.</p><p><br/></p><p>That some people are only meant to be chapters, no matter how badly you wanted them to become the whole story.</p><p><br/></p><p>I've learned that being strong doesn't mean you never break.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes, strength is crying when nobody is watching, wiping your tears, and still finding a reason to get out of bed the next morning.</p><p><br/></p><p>I've also learned that not every unanswered prayer is a punishment.</p><p><br/></p><p>Some things I begged God for would have taken me somewhere I wasn't ready to be.</p><p><br/></p><p>Some doors I cried over closing were actually doors I needed to stop knocking on.</p><p><br/></p><p>And perhaps the hardest lesson has been learning that I cannot control everything.</p><p><br/></p><p>I cannot make people stay.</p><p>I cannot make people understand me.</p><p>I cannot make everything happen when I want it to.</p><p><br/></p><p>All I can do is keep becoming.</p><p><br/></p><p>Keep learning.</p><p><br/></p><p>Keep healing.</p><p><br/></p><p>Keep trusting that the things I don't understand today may make sense someday.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe that's what growing really is.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not becoming someone who has all the answers, but becoming someone who can live peacefully with the questions.</p><p><br/></p><p>I don't know everything anymore.</p><p><br/></p><p>And strangely, I'm okay with that.</p><p><br/></p><p>Life has taught me otherwise. ❤️</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.