Time doesn’t always move forward.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUZgg8JD65
Sometimes, it spirals.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAyRDp5lCX
Pulling new people into our orbit.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfawg8vyooe
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFHSwwRa66
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ600TsHe0ey
Both from CSE.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDPaSkY8l6
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡengt52BZ2f
both from her class.
The first was Richard —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgd2W56k7i2
a friend of Ren and Krish,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg6rlivWQrg
connected, confident,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRH7gKWYDo
a little too good in coding,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRlbODr49H7
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGoIhB3XSE
blooming with direction and privilege,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmIvZvCodo
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTppFOkcUy
quiet, almost invisible,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnnF2dkUXQ0
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgWPyaYvSg
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE83ILGNi5y
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Du2PrEfWf
Top of the class in both code and core.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmqp7OFnwke
I met him through Simon —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn29SS6J9RD
and oddly enough,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9Z8okhP0Q
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynnzjGTFH6
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4Yzw8464p
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgd8Vmsfroh
To my surprise — or maybe not —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmRJaam1HL
I was placed in Batch 1.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4JHJHvxOE
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj42DHOV146
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyDQciW65a
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeZ0UB42gKN
Never too visible, never too prepared.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡep4a7otZcM
I relied on people.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtqPCuv7As
My laziness demanded a soft network.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtgAkb77A9
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnzPF1WqXz
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFERfIxNm6
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8MaVd8yoia
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1hc36X3l7
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuqDLYAxZx
An ambitious venture.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbsW1twDj5
A bridge between logic and imagination.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcwSh3gQtQi
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90CvrJYd2X
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrydoOqwCsx
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfNLv3Ul1VF
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmASORKF9bY
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDghBfqapz
A poet.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Yu7CgYlLn
A cook.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUb2k9013pA
A coder.
And most of all,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpunvF0kCDk
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWLPxFVxTj
He whispered them.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5mdiigcLZR
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGL2v3t2cCj
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvbbxGfyL7M
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKbQnCvIa3
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKotQFcM9J
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEE9P0SyHK
All of them.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxna76HRyX
Not as classmates, or peers,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwrm1wtPIN
but as flowers —133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3zuxjdtih
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Niev9AKuK
somewhere in that garden.
