Time doesn’t always move forward.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpa6bR44Icl
Sometimes, it spirals.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrMFHdNpjsu
Pulling new people into our orbit.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbhaMUz12s
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5PQhpGHhW
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZijwfIImm5
Both from CSE.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFU26bunDT
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBXUobRcpR
both from her class.
The first was Richard —138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLs4yW0n3Lu
a friend of Ren and Krish,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWv0LcR6aB8
connected, confident,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHWIxnZLDGs
a little too good in coding,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EwjWRen23
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTCuQyU4HO
blooming with direction and privilege,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mnVWLkgnS
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx20gj6T0yR
quiet, almost invisible,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBczIuJDhk
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1hIFFmJgSd
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlKXH1JatK
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6f5mOgttj
Top of the class in both code and core.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YqpYrvVEz
I met him through Simon —138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4tetR2iPha
and oddly enough,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxofkNzD0k7
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWoPHtDBORK
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Rt5FPfCNF
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXD1GvgC5p
To my surprise — or maybe not —138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDNgc91XjD
I was placed in Batch 1.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFn2W2Guf7g
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6BX05XrEJG
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWJ4O0aqh5
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqVKudXhAX
Never too visible, never too prepared.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uglHAqo1W
I relied on people.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkFLNf0c4Q
My laziness demanded a soft network.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwltzY3Xsd
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5aUJMDMHs
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92c4hOdl2x
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS4nb28SL9N
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB7lpxKiVil
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpn8QdYVT2
An ambitious venture.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCNtJR1xy7
A bridge between logic and imagination.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4OXiIPDZFX
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UcivpWlfX
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJ6kye8Sdn
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjew80dnQy
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu6uUeJ6RR7
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeEjESX7qz
A poet.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3m5q1aUZod
A cook.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn3q88qQCki
A coder.
And most of all,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu2NVDTqhli
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1LXBLY2qcy
He whispered them.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVfp6cTN4T
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1785nIfgh
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdS7iTfCJM
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmX7OaBYif
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRu6PAqWR9
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMtUSZRh3c
All of them.138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhjjsatcmI
Not as classmates, or peers,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGOyC3aFo6
but as flowers —138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HaEfotxBy
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,138Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNAZbQsbn9
somewhere in that garden.
