<p><br/></p><p>When the night grew heavy</p><p>and silence pressed against my chest,</p><p>I thought I was alone.</p><p>My shadow felt long, my voice small,</p><p>and the road ahead endless.</p><p><br/></p><p>But within that quiet,</p><p>a rhythm rose — soft, ancient, steady.</p><p>It was not my own.</p><p>It was theirs.</p><p>Those who came before me,</p><p>those unseen, yet ever near.</p><p><br/></p><p>Their breath stirred the dust around my feet,</p><p>their whispers shaped the wind.</p><p>“Do not fear, child of spirit,” they said.</p><p>“No darkness can hide your name.</p><p>You are light carved from our memory,</p><p>you are strength born from our prayers.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Rise, for our bones built your path.</p><p>Our stories live in your veins.</p><p>You are the echo of our courage.</p><p>We are the descendants of the unseen,</p><p>born from whispers older than the wind.</p><p>We walk in peace,</p><p>deliver light through shadows,</p><p>and speak without sound.”</p><p><br/></p><p>I bowed my head, weary from the journey,</p><p>and they lifted it gently.</p><p>They reminded me that loneliness</p><p>is only the space where their voices echo.</p><p>They reminded me that pain</p><p>is the drumbeat that wakes the soul.</p><p><br/></p><p>Through my tears, I saw them —</p><p>not with eyes, but with the pulse in my blood.</p><p>They moved like water through my bones,</p><p>speaking in waves,</p><p>singing in silence.</p><p><br/></p><p>I made water my strength —</p><p>soft, calm, but fierce when moved.</p><p>It taught me to bend, never to break,</p><p>to flow around the stones of doubt,</p><p>to find my way through the narrow places of fear.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Timileyin,” they called me,</p><p>“Trust in us, and trust in yourself.</p><p>For your name is not just given — it is a promise.</p><p>You carry our strength when yours falters.</p><p>You are the vessel of our hope.”</p><p><br/></p><p>Their words became my shield.</p><p>Their faith became my fire.</p><p>Even when my spirit trembles,</p><p>their calm steadies me.</p><p>Even when I feel broken,</p><p>their power fills the cracks with gold.</p><p><br/></p><p>I walk now with unseen company —</p><p>their footsteps matching mine,</p><p>their hearts beating in my rhythm.</p><p>I am never alone, even in stillness.</p><p>Their courage breathes through me.</p><p>Their songs rise through my voice.</p><p><br/></p><p>When I fall, they whisper, “Rise again.”</p><p>When I doubt, they remind me,</p><p>“You are Timileyin —</p><p>the one who carries trust like flame,</p><p>the one who was never abandoned,</p><p>the one who walks with the wind of his fathers.”</p><p><br/></p><p>So I move forward,</p><p>soft, calm, but fierce when moved.</p><p>I bend, but never break.</p><p>For they walk with me —</p><p>and I with them.</p><p><br/></p><p>Forever bound in breath and truth.</p><p>Forever guided by the unseen.</p><p>Forever alive —</p><p>in spirit, in strength,</p><p>in the name that means,</p><p>Timileyin — trust in us. </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
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.
Contributor Rankings
The Contributor Rankings shows the Top 20 Contributors on TwoCents a monthly and all-time basis.
The all-time ranking is based on the Contributor Score, which is a measure of all the engagement and exposure a contributor's content receives.
The monthly score sums the score on all your insights in the past 30 days. The monthly and all-time scores are calcuated DIFFERENTLY.
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)
5
Upvotes
6
Views
1
Number of insights published
2
Subscriptions received
3
Tips received
Below is a list of badges on TwoCents and their designations.
Comments