Looking for Purpose in a Purposeless World (especially when all things shall pass away)
<p>I’ve tried.</p><p>God knows I’ve tried.</p><p>To grow,</p><p>to heal,</p><p>to be light in someone else’s darkness —</p><p>but sometimes it feels like the more I try to shine,</p><p>the more the emptiness grows.</p><p>They say, “Find your purpose.”</p><p>But what if purpose keeps slipping through your fingers</p><p>like water —</p><p>what if everything you build</p><p>still ends up fading?</p><p>Some nights it feels like life is just a loop:</p><p>you rise,</p><p>you fall,</p><p>you fix yourself,</p><p>then break again quietly,</p><p>pretending it’s progress.</p><p>And maybe it is.</p><p>Maybe it’s not.</p><p>Maybe this world was never meant to make sense —</p><p>a place where everything ends,</p><p>where everyone leaves,</p><p>where every good thing fades eventually.</p><p>And yet we keep reaching anyway,</p><p>like hope itself refuses to die.</p><p>Maybe that’s the real ache of being human —</p><p>to know everything will pass away,</p><p>but still want to mean something before it does.</p><p>I’ve learned that purpose isn’t always a miracle moment.</p><p>Sometimes it’s just the decision to wake up again,</p><p>even when you don’t feel like it.</p><p>Sometimes it’s showing love to people</p><p>who can’t love you back.</p><p>Sometimes it’s giving light</p><p>and being left in the dark anyway.</p><p>And that’s the hardest part —</p><p>when you pour out so much</p><p>that there’s nothing left in you to refill.</p><p>But even then…</p><p>there’s a strange kind of peace</p><p>in knowing you tried.</p><p>You cared.</p><p>You gave something real</p><p>in a world that forgets real things so easily.</p><p>Maybe that’s purpose enough —</p><p>not to be seen,</p><p>not to be remembered,</p><p>but to have felt deeply</p><p>in a world that’s gone numb.</p><p>Because even when it doesn’t go the way you hoped,</p><p>even when the emptiness grows instead of shrinking —</p><p>you were still a spark,</p><p>even if the night didn’t notice.</p><p><br/></p><p>Thanks again for your patience, time and attention.</p><p>Credits: Confidential 🙂</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></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
We give out cash prizes to 7 people with the best insights in the past month. The 7 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.
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 "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 "Monthly Contributors" tab on the rankings page.
Here are a few other things to know for the Best Content track
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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.
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Share original, authentic, and engaging content that clearly reflects your voice, thoughts, and opinions.
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Avoid using AI to generate content—use it instead to correct grammar, improve flow, enhance structure, and boost clarity.
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Explore audio content—high-quality audio insights can significantly boost your chances of standing out.
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Use eye-catching cover images—if your content doesn't attract attention, it's less likely to be read or engaged with.
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Share your content in your social circles to build engagement around it.
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This page also shows the top engagers on TwoCents — these are community members that have engaged the most with other user's content.
Contributor Score
Here is a list of metrics that are used to calcuate your contributor score, arranged from
the metric with the highest weighting, to the one with the lowest weighting.
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Comments (excluding replies)
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Upvotes
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Views
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Number of insights published
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Subscriptions received
3
Tips received
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