Time doesn’t always move forward.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuso8GQ51U
Sometimes, it spirals.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWqR0szQUYL
Pulling new people into our orbit.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBaz2mxdPaI
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPgUDaefd4
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcaekrCZG9
Both from CSE.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSD5WfyQ5qQ
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKi7S2GcmNw
both from her class.
The first was Richard —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARLoCMbkFl
a friend of Ren and Krish,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3lIcWKfY0
connected, confident,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bXJo1UVPg
a little too good in coding,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxkbXlICBXq
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1GUwWGA0N
blooming with direction and privilege,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk0MUoXIqZ3
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZ4rATtsqA
quiet, almost invisible,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07lvtHZx40
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDuIfLEKCJ
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDosp4RakR
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbn3nAahzzE
Top of the class in both code and core.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl5BiuWjFrH
I met him through Simon —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNMsirSiMc
and oddly enough,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBt281ynFg
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiZ6YrD1uex
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQIaxi59Aea
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNtIMwzzzD
To my surprise — or maybe not —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCh7Mg3SPOG
I was placed in Batch 1.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmoKfDd6AJv
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKzZNZv0ir
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3yKIfdpRn
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs9zfxK84Hr
Never too visible, never too prepared.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFynJCosdW
I relied on people.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxA3MTERsQ
My laziness demanded a soft network.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDr3y0od8D
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlT5LuTmvB5
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6skbtm8kUb
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDSwCMqtZpR
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3W3sUd5G49
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJcnN353Rh
An ambitious venture.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfB2CP6GJVg
A bridge between logic and imagination.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZ6NM8hTOi
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZR9UVWSQ1
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3G1TkNRcC
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96lxjE5JwI
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8h42l7WYVx
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBaYxx4zgX0
A poet.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Fxrezvwx8
A cook.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEY6y7SfqE
A coder.
And most of all,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ863W8cVcWH
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2B5IO0DGki
He whispered them.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcoic2iEun
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplkUv1H1QT
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXlsFQZekR
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr8cRILyUbF
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaiJTNTKySW
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7DYveU7iZ
All of them.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37NFCTwMZ7
Not as classmates, or peers,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKi85KsngY
but as flowers —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8K09oItoR
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu15DEFUEE5
somewhere in that garden.
