Time doesn’t always move forward.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqExbtEoCWd
Sometimes, it spirals.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeiMzWswlzN
Pulling new people into our orbit.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjoSWbiPdB
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8uKlfzZdcw
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aWF5ey71w
Both from CSE.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4tSgXsmkr
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZdke9yTwk
both from her class.
The first was Richard —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbfSw5hA29
a friend of Ren and Krish,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8WhpNY0FCU
connected, confident,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0CIxOJozD
a little too good in coding,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjU25rBhfHP
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6XtKXV84l
blooming with direction and privilege,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2FUKqeG74k
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprBzBhBZeM
quiet, almost invisible,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrUHQHWq7V
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpiAH8lARwi
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxJkWq93CD
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkiqhaYZvC
Top of the class in both code and core.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcsbfhYeX0V
I met him through Simon —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKrDAvfU2jR
and oddly enough,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoyijsUwt1
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSyj4NZQ5UC
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9prLtzHxC
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ463CDVwAZN
To my surprise — or maybe not —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXCoMZp3Sf
I was placed in Batch 1.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQdTcMcEShh
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡny6nnjh8Tw
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKkUvoBLtD
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6qFvWMcbOM
Never too visible, never too prepared.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuzw64aEeAO
I relied on people.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4bcjI5Spj
My laziness demanded a soft network.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8bIatx0Kgp
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOF6PZQTup8
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhvxtEh4E9
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxsahEuelP
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwxpibK2Le
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡai7LuGLaTs
An ambitious venture.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEV2MLdCTXv
A bridge between logic and imagination.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPdQgrHrb1
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHN9Asha7LC
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1TrglYZCS
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNzW5PUb3p
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvrgTz2bmj
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mNaMx3LQY
A poet.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWxHwYxd6R
A cook.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi61HRlq8me
A coder.
And most of all,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHe6x9CrVOA
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTz8M2cYN1N
He whispered them.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcaveMShBXt
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHlLyLJUOs
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtaWuluJE3
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTrkCHLWsH
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyaPFubMjfi
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdX9k7OwNtu
All of them.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWgYAiNWUQ
Not as classmates, or peers,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnSSmYArPN
but as flowers —27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAiUMlbUsMr
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07BWeiF0As
somewhere in that garden.
