Time doesn’t always move forward.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAy1SGGYGu3
Sometimes, it spirals.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXM69l1Guqc
Pulling new people into our orbit.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEt3qmkgiUr
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFbW9xDvW6
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQE79mEWnE
Both from CSE.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDPpGICEmV
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4GcHKYtvDw
both from her class.
The first was Richard —107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV7eJruduYO
a friend of Ren and Krish,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDmatLOTe2
connected, confident,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9vOlsxg5tO
a little too good in coding,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9G9epms2iK
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPh29gMVvc5
blooming with direction and privilege,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywKYBz77VC
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUIDQEvzOw
quiet, almost invisible,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMc6caWMrvE
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLbVuehIZUv
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU8pVGLeKO5
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtpPaGG7ta6
Top of the class in both code and core.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNWssmWxuH
I met him through Simon —107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtg62J5TT0H
and oddly enough,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLu2YCzVcHB
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeiDnU8SRcn
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYQ0mNdedO
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQ96Ia8p00
To my surprise — or maybe not —107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHERK1EA5Tc
I was placed in Batch 1.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0qNuy5D9SR
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDgTrITgGs
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAh0ONGXtRZ
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4TW2Z2S7X
Never too visible, never too prepared.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCn7M4ULNe
I relied on people.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAXUrQbkIhK
My laziness demanded a soft network.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jZ8q7StS3
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZVu36kZGJ
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBX4KSiPJw
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgkfqoFVOH
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMM68exs4w
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmajnjeHlCG
An ambitious venture.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlW7MTwLZPI
A bridge between logic and imagination.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0AcC7G2oo
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbk2yuT9T3M
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZ3mZrfnrK
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFc3UEaumW
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DLmm3Ci3b
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJT5TaT5BPr
A poet.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9gkjHPJP7S
A cook.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpFyNOwx12
A coder.
And most of all,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloTd8m4pjX
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4KBcqnX3Bf
He whispered them.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtTJmnCmDm
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJPcCF9i4E
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZvQKqr5t5
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHBaezQgsa
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDq5Dr2mOOg
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshwFhJLkYw
All of them.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTRAnBLIef
Not as classmates, or peers,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rDGipX6Mq
but as flowers —107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiFcppRI472
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmk1Y13haP
somewhere in that garden.
