Time doesn’t always move forward.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlyi2pMRaP2
Sometimes, it spirals.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlppO8b9cz
Pulling new people into our orbit.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtxhgGkivsP
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4Kmb8jNRs
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIABYMQdCx8
Both from CSE.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA17NO4pb4Z
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6sKWOdd1y2
both from her class.
The first was Richard —95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtR786307SE
a friend of Ren and Krish,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6RKbsXPvI
connected, confident,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzWv0tURcg
a little too good in coding,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmu7g2PUba
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrowDEoQHP
blooming with direction and privilege,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLy8oibjg8a
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKL44h2QK7u
quiet, almost invisible,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wGr6odoX0
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtGKZYFdirp
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05OCCrtGUc
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsUvLU5iMK4
Top of the class in both code and core.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GFYCeVOx4
I met him through Simon —95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsjxVn949D
and oddly enough,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdr2OAVwd1u
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP57AMO5tfM
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYW4mQnMTW
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9boajATp9
To my surprise — or maybe not —95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FflkSh9no
I was placed in Batch 1.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzjf1wJCWLV
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VWfEgyyd7
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhnf1BVbEBN
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAid27n009E
Never too visible, never too prepared.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICQIu0OJK7
I relied on people.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhxXhocbOOF
My laziness demanded a soft network.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Mw0N4aOC3
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNZrHsyz1c
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVGVzZqQnP
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOnce5cTZa
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxAuVQy8Yj
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡilWB3DosLi
An ambitious venture.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkK0U4Sttz0
A bridge between logic and imagination.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZOQdpFybg
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3UHtg0iVM
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xV5Nje1WI
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtQWEX1zgZO
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYw4539aSS
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVmLL7KwP8
A poet.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1xZIF8OSm
A cook.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXotVL2D2mo
A coder.
And most of all,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡliFPJ4EeEk
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXi6xCZrEd
He whispered them.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqQGN4H4HF
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLATpZzSmfM
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfoQDRxlvG
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsm4BeLt2l4
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dM4VBYopK
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2OV9gdwz4
All of them.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZP7hZHGeI6
Not as classmates, or peers,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnqVUMXTQya
but as flowers —95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFZA9KvkVhA
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrax15mx3S4
somewhere in that garden.
