Time doesn’t always move forward.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBVbE7VbxQ
Sometimes, it spirals.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomucI9Qjvj
Pulling new people into our orbit.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0jDrvIO2q
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5x6KcB3WWi
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TV9salGPA
Both from CSE.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrpLwaHfd9
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhggKarCswy
both from her class.
The first was Richard —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfmYXfHiV6
a friend of Ren and Krish,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIYdJ11j78S
connected, confident,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZZgtt1JOY
a little too good in coding,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVzZg9At4p
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRxDv4E3Ys
blooming with direction and privilege,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4lFFVceFIo
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa69nRcwdaO
quiet, almost invisible,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI5YAwffOQS
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5r4Ztlr3yU
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4EELGmYvn
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqQgCWqrx2
Top of the class in both code and core.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dYmxppyuM
I met him through Simon —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9uFBkZD4B
and oddly enough,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wA8JaIFAB
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQt5Gug2DW2
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYnSD2OccC
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfv2OhoibZ
To my surprise — or maybe not —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqOBT9Ew2H
I was placed in Batch 1.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkLUSwmLWv
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwHtN87TqW2
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNXBzfucSLg
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfduiXpkL8
Never too visible, never too prepared.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMYYeJfgHdO
I relied on people.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlB0bTFIN1E
My laziness demanded a soft network.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHuZB24f48
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYT7Dbei2Sl
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPqzoguaSn
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHMONDrISFB
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhnb8BcDc5X
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1AkpnpEqHj
An ambitious venture.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoc3dfHyZEc
A bridge between logic and imagination.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3WGqlSX5m
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx5wgWamCDG
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLv5hZgMGQ
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTp8vo5RcH
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ajYmqxiDK
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxuq1rwY6Yx
A poet.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡThkm2pmzV3
A cook.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmHM23KtZn
A coder.
And most of all,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7R6gW1ZcTt
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8QTHJJ1rFs
He whispered them.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQIPhcW4La
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4y4MDk2krf
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuP5CHzLpFR
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkcPyZthE8
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMEXYNoMOnG
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6e49MOPQk
All of them.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdHlnrycnl5
Not as classmates, or peers,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFye9PZuDKs
but as flowers —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbVNRRW9BS
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgxViMLEJWo
somewhere in that garden.
