Time doesn’t always move forward.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazEvVLo2jF
Sometimes, it spirals.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡohCoVWbFT5
Pulling new people into our orbit.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLScWzm9c4
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vXE2XWw69
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxApgan3EpA
Both from CSE.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZO8CPo4gAy
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNUMQeKhYNc
both from her class.
The first was Richard —109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwzrXLapYw
a friend of Ren and Krish,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQIZ9MBiviR
connected, confident,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIZ3d8MUFC
a little too good in coding,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSP1oezsFdC
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynQYpRJfuc
blooming with direction and privilege,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMNDC9CAiM
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBoYaaThjR
quiet, almost invisible,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUvwCUM9Ep
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKu5Qi49Ak6
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhfDCsvvwC
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtpLBRyYmI6
Top of the class in both code and core.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3QLpr3xFq
I met him through Simon —109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDkXgIFq1p
and oddly enough,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFTO0OzCYL
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBepz9hixi
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYBYBizgz0
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvsoHMzEBJ
To my surprise — or maybe not —109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxZrUFrd1Y
I was placed in Batch 1.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9nEVrHfVOM
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKZ6Gkz2Fn
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJmU691w8W
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKz9WVbWXRe
Never too visible, never too prepared.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx78NoKqpdr
I relied on people.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWaiFXRLdCW
My laziness demanded a soft network.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVxFctQMhU
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFE2MN1l3t
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAIq1k9iYM
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXSVAhNr87
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡis4Vh8x3v7
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDsGpc5eUH5
An ambitious venture.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOyDjSJHlD0
A bridge between logic and imagination.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMhKorI2B0M
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlgIOCHUxy6
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfvnxYIK6ce
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvBqrlSceh
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62PunliFQP
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZ50BSeoWq
A poet.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAYgPpwXqj
A cook.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKwTNZQmG9
A coder.
And most of all,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54sOUuzMHg
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1Jt0vpvU1
He whispered them.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvaRxS7Mj4
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBs45MiqZu
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWglhLU9rc
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXPKfTr1js
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaErWMDsr2R
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuThYv1mwSF
All of them.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrRJq63kyq9
Not as classmates, or peers,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUfEAt4feO
but as flowers —109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWu1nguyn7
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkdn1EWUvm
somewhere in that garden.
