Time doesn’t always move forward.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19vPBTjboi
Sometimes, it spirals.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEd3uU0xJCq
Pulling new people into our orbit.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMF3oXr6oqL
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkuj1dzKXTV
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJXB2yXPol
Both from CSE.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4kwQDAd4T
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2AorI4HH7n
both from her class.
The first was Richard —106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWgqGplTqT
a friend of Ren and Krish,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDINKIpxey2
connected, confident,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnE8YPLMiYW
a little too good in coding,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1C0sMzOMq5
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtunpHVgsB6
blooming with direction and privilege,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIxSqm9r7U
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYFZzBLFTB
quiet, almost invisible,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZZngRDy3f
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0DVzxPzdI
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlwlqg1yded
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRi0u09Z2s6
Top of the class in both code and core.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMqOMS7vlu
I met him through Simon —106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LDZgt6Thy
and oddly enough,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFzRWJUlsm
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1qm64Lbwz
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8sqPnmMHxk
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKLXGewakK
To my surprise — or maybe not —106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0GV4L06Ih
I was placed in Batch 1.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTQKtT6HSw
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WJX8o2B12
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDzIOuFwkva
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTV0ZXLHPcW
Never too visible, never too prepared.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wjfsabnbr
I relied on people.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgWJ0HgCZQ
My laziness demanded a soft network.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGq2YgKuAiV
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXGzsZqrbA
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8QmqbJVZY2
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlb3gq8qhAZ
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtzqFYhgK1
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBK4A8BeSeC
An ambitious venture.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUT1N2FvIei
A bridge between logic and imagination.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZANtfEpDWT
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSDdbAGSK7
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6fv7Nq4gQ
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWlFNWUnHI
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZsfnV0aux
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmy64QEgnV
A poet.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6iDBoy9lfe
A cook.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡto9KANS7Ek
A coder.
And most of all,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvFfNo2cv7k
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtQR7saFOA
He whispered them.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfcm0lT86k
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9zpiUXfzKM
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1xeYslAqi
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1J7EBV8UPW
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXewfHbhbLg
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrluMeNjxQu
All of them.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUj9kViBGsl
Not as classmates, or peers,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4g7d58gQ0G
but as flowers —106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wUCOxwSj1
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRyTW5mWsx
somewhere in that garden.
