Time doesn’t always move forward.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlOLghHUPUE
Sometimes, it spirals.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0eKrNEvykd
Pulling new people into our orbit.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hzmLIfBu7
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Y8zfUwdkH
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJfWH4SB8T
Both from CSE.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKhHs1OA9U
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLmJefOQqR
both from her class.
The first was Richard —108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH5fVJPlNWy
a friend of Ren and Krish,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazA3CYhZRC
connected, confident,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjUymUKfmI
a little too good in coding,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTsLVzOPdR
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsHbAZeTJBV
blooming with direction and privilege,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bgBBXuLMe
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOKTfjFGlo
quiet, almost invisible,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnELq4cJR0e
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7peeICsvP
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbdqHrc1WI
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWCqO4nmnW
Top of the class in both code and core.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMuLZMx3MQc
I met him through Simon —108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXlKqvzguh7
and oddly enough,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKPxsbI1TJ
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5VzH8X2y5d
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYoWgHfvPS
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMLBg3IfFe
To my surprise — or maybe not —108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPobmnTTbn
I was placed in Batch 1.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNngbmTh8P
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpJAyT9G9G
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDpjgAJRndk
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWKaAAkWtTe
Never too visible, never too prepared.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUkr31xCEaU
I relied on people.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs3UMqsd7gG
My laziness demanded a soft network.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2KcpktrSS
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5HnlbfFdF
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36Qq9QgYNZ
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDl5T1TEYl
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrOivYQDwY6
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJlt7Ij98b
An ambitious venture.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJ4OUxmJ05
A bridge between logic and imagination.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9jSnXASjA
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduaG11q2UZ
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzussduW5f
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEdX8MZFeq5
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNOAPWBsCOn
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YkYZhFq4U
A poet.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHYBtW0N7L
A cook.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIsbtZlXPp1
A coder.
And most of all,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPs56jpSHeC
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOTiWx3NHD5
He whispered them.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHi0IjtIbU
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNurKI0H3Z
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3YYdDN87ah
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH6w71g05KD
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEzG8xukFKq
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi32eAtgXPt
All of them.108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiHa98LWFX
Not as classmates, or peers,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCKppFm80k
but as flowers —108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbzFTLTr4p
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,108Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0jG5GB10i
somewhere in that garden.
