Time doesn’t always move forward.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJBziQa3xc
Sometimes, it spirals.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfqfJFqylV
Pulling new people into our orbit.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1k1focD1O
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbUp3FGere4
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXry0bvsKoC
Both from CSE.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5VDmkzRhyH
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVi7mDsym7v
both from her class.
The first was Richard —93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3a0VyF9eH
a friend of Ren and Krish,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyrVTS6JCq
connected, confident,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqfJg5bvGrW
a little too good in coding,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfNxrqDCqG
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6TdEJ8Cya
blooming with direction and privilege,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6cTf6Bw9Mv
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWXX9dKYnx
quiet, almost invisible,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYQKPzklbnV
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvb2FIPQQBG
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1pj9RlitPJ
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowjMEXrhe6
Top of the class in both code and core.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKOa0zQ8WC
I met him through Simon —93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6A5cIovrtB
and oddly enough,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYlh7oZgJP
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc91Qdrl47x
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkccd5gz35X
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKtBPnB5FR
To my surprise — or maybe not —93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQLGpZ5dou
I was placed in Batch 1.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnP9Gs0v8du
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsB3adtb2Gx
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCAP1OB9KqX
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29fMHj9t6V
Never too visible, never too prepared.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHadtnDtkr
I relied on people.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7zRwBTAty
My laziness demanded a soft network.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjQU0n7MYn
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAICh9zFzhU
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZsy8vMzlgb
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLvb7XXa8pH
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGalRzwV79
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHcPhBGuPJB
An ambitious venture.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvkl0ROOLf
A bridge between logic and imagination.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcpntTSaI5
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7G3Y45PIG5
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48OlRScO7l
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7XxKvxDVg8
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDh1xUt52i
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNBvG9TFyL
A poet.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpliCr8IJ5m
A cook.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNeBIRxkKyS
A coder.
And most of all,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5HFknrJduK
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqI6KKxoweS
He whispered them.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuF3CRA0O7W
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnMCOUe2zz
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUOblEKb9b
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Yds5Wguma
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHL9ziZvHf
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7ms0Wcyl9
All of them.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5yWTmrg1AO
Not as classmates, or peers,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrCReJUjkot
but as flowers —93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOt3a1lqe4
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0KzH3Lhbr
somewhere in that garden.
