Time doesn’t always move forward.125Please respect copyright.PENANAxta1iLAEct
Sometimes, it spirals.125Please respect copyright.PENANAwyZkeRgIdf
Pulling new people into our orbit.125Please respect copyright.PENANAnZGt6p0kys
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.125Please respect copyright.PENANAb6EjOvhwr8
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.125Please respect copyright.PENANAeSCFHYjOjC
Both from CSE.125Please respect copyright.PENANAN0MFy4GNEQ
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —125Please respect copyright.PENANAxfxV9SuTTc
both from her class.
The first was Richard —125Please respect copyright.PENANAVQpyO06hV9
a friend of Ren and Krish,125Please respect copyright.PENANA1FK23Iu3Fw
connected, confident,125Please respect copyright.PENANAQk5fJrOklL
a little too good in coding,125Please respect copyright.PENANAhYIR9FlosP
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —125Please respect copyright.PENANAmHgKYtGfgq
blooming with direction and privilege,125Please respect copyright.PENANAR8gMeyQL7f
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —125Please respect copyright.PENANA3HxAZ7Px09
quiet, almost invisible,125Please respect copyright.PENANAIxCdvcdqmb
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.125Please respect copyright.PENANASvprAVMrI2
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,125Please respect copyright.PENANApfNmrfAwQI
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.125Please respect copyright.PENANAGfiOJy6dl6
Top of the class in both code and core.125Please respect copyright.PENANAojwFl50RUe
I met him through Simon —125Please respect copyright.PENANAY199LYKjwk
and oddly enough,125Please respect copyright.PENANAQ5hskUL7EW
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.125Please respect copyright.PENANAGAvk7xZfDV
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.125Please respect copyright.PENANAhZtfATyTyb
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.125Please respect copyright.PENANAtGOI3g5o76
To my surprise — or maybe not —125Please respect copyright.PENANA7LWP24JbQa
I was placed in Batch 1.125Please respect copyright.PENANAMSf0QxBDIl
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.125Please respect copyright.PENANA0yjVBBmFPM
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.125Please respect copyright.PENANAGNA2koQl44
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.125Please respect copyright.PENANAl1LLzaeb9U
Never too visible, never too prepared.125Please respect copyright.PENANAsyrpbRfsv6
I relied on people.125Please respect copyright.PENANAeSa0296LfP
My laziness demanded a soft network.125Please respect copyright.PENANAEbIRKvYhJZ
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,125Please respect copyright.PENANAEvJh2T6Fzu
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —125Please respect copyright.PENANAZIPQ76Mkap
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,125Please respect copyright.PENANAZq2AAfWynX
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.125Please respect copyright.PENANAm1O7T0FXPg
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.125Please respect copyright.PENANAWwiTvFdjvL
An ambitious venture.125Please respect copyright.PENANAm9iR020RSG
A bridge between logic and imagination.125Please respect copyright.PENANA4KFcCGCjG7
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,125Please respect copyright.PENANAn9LUwKQv3U
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...125Please respect copyright.PENANAeib2HhC40f
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —125Please respect copyright.PENANAT1pRCAHoPo
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.125Please respect copyright.PENANAT9UwxeLI35
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.125Please respect copyright.PENANAjSM3QPUAkq
A poet.125Please respect copyright.PENANAjMB1I8NoVM
A cook.125Please respect copyright.PENANAETkaXtBYgP
A coder.
And most of all,125Please respect copyright.PENANACj4AOkinKc
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.125Please respect copyright.PENANAjgIgQSkpaU
He whispered them.125Please respect copyright.PENANAES4Qn2puDl
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.125Please respect copyright.PENANA3kfzB1ygmT
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…125Please respect copyright.PENANA1e5RvdXXZo
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.125Please respect copyright.PENANAX5An9FLylI
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —125Please respect copyright.PENANAc82D9beCY8
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.125Please respect copyright.PENANApZsArZAdLS
All of them.125Please respect copyright.PENANArc4fI4lmak
Not as classmates, or peers,125Please respect copyright.PENANAzIx9pi0UzM
but as flowers —125Please respect copyright.PENANAC8dq0nKz0U
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,125Please respect copyright.PENANAp93Sppr6YH
somewhere in that garden.