Time doesn’t always move forward.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDZlRW3bqz
Sometimes, it spirals.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW04sMpsHsx
Pulling new people into our orbit.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuSi3gSMco
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1q8CAymUW
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUIJfDU1yE
Both from CSE.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnqE6vpuaw
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rKV6GseS2
both from her class.
The first was Richard —155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPXCg76lrm
a friend of Ren and Krish,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHY0TMS7OK
connected, confident,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVeamLGl7U
a little too good in coding,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLUusby9wk
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfzFHJW6cn
blooming with direction and privilege,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfTCvSTo8S
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCFNnURa3KN
quiet, almost invisible,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLBorAlPf0
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfVGpRA2WZ
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aZgxzuAfZ
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpsctF3v5H
Top of the class in both code and core.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqU5zUGDmO
I met him through Simon —155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgFE9Nr4pH
and oddly enough,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomZ9P76wgw
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVq7EemEyb
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMCmLDO1AW
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfiKIExzg7T
To my surprise — or maybe not —155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0hEq0w6tzr
I was placed in Batch 1.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6mWRgI1rXz
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHvs6xLX0u
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNFDAULWf8
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwiGcW4P0I6
Never too visible, never too prepared.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixUj9H73VE
I relied on people.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUijLK0nzuf
My laziness demanded a soft network.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwZNUkqyli
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VrKNsNJZY
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZDhmKAx0Q
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTdE2fUnHez
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWHduhIhul
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhoakypOYfq
An ambitious venture.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCuVU0F6k3
A bridge between logic and imagination.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0JW18HQoK
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIdQVdFs7N
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8CP9YWuxGB
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8Iv2pA0j5
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYWwsQk9Mo
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3tAy45srsB
A poet.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTeyzAXMRTO
A cook.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmV3RuW9Daj
A coder.
And most of all,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡumGa4GcJ7L
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvYP6emuQ3o
He whispered them.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jOCwvoPJp
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdi3ZvI7j5
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6YY6RTUlzA
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TTV6BSxyt
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPRfagfnuQl
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Vn6IfVdHb
All of them.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qBy7LV3wt
Not as classmates, or peers,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOI1yqb2ca
but as flowers —155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9LzmW6G9J
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEN9vZOqP5c
somewhere in that garden.
