Time doesn’t always move forward.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6R8YJHThS
Sometimes, it spirals.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2W3mx3kIO
Pulling new people into our orbit.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gXSSOu0Rk
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21qv4t4AtZ
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIml8jHTWGz
Both from CSE.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVMANof1T8
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiChE44utTQ
both from her class.
The first was Richard —444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNHIXdgJtr
a friend of Ren and Krish,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCPbE4Oge7
connected, confident,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCfV4NjaOJ
a little too good in coding,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpiASCLQBr6
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TzlAIQVfe
blooming with direction and privilege,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDgR0Wx6J5
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYr2rhyOoNq
quiet, almost invisible,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSS2FGstotQ
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ky5nT6JQs
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOinfZSxWmz
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHFkadRDJl
Top of the class in both code and core.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNnMNLLPOF
I met him through Simon —444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gMf10lAET
and oddly enough,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjyfgnoSDE
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMshmHRsLX
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgDDzs6ggR
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtn4noiu9K
To my surprise — or maybe not —444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlkh17w23F
I was placed in Batch 1.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPVWr03oUxJ
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlGpa8bmoN3
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3qwNlqZ0D1
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi55Z2dMEdB
Never too visible, never too prepared.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKHD3l0ujOr
I relied on people.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1UdRxu9SQ
My laziness demanded a soft network.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGaACRQStWj
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6IPyqZIYO
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRihpHGnRJ
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjkmWL7I0F
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡueNoZFLHRD
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHRueFR0Zy
An ambitious venture.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTnzJjCyiT
A bridge between logic and imagination.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4lDRa1h77
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjKGU9dPxU
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsounThC412
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTx0hV8lPM
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bPnCxcFQZ
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOfYBwLg1Qq
A poet.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIh8uGUjRbY
A cook.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZw4L8qsyit
A coder.
And most of all,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVc2pYNAEff
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLBmm9zvIP
He whispered them.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyfqW4NU51
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQ5V3cSOdP
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZXia3M3kI
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4x8I2zFBcB
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlVuNuVrXts
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYp57M241U
All of them.444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxW0qbwqe2O
Not as classmates, or peers,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8rqsHFQXl
but as flowers —444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYGDH7gRx38
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,444Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZhyQJbQ7R
somewhere in that garden.
and then Add to home screen.