Time doesn’t always move forward.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCtHOZIjf6
Sometimes, it spirals.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XCzIPdAEG
Pulling new people into our orbit.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1FElgFiEG
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOwk6hjnvJ
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhgOFBcTsq
Both from CSE.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSaULCxjsJ
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgqsYxtwU5
both from her class.
The first was Richard —130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPfJpKR6ZE
a friend of Ren and Krish,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWNo5MGTth
connected, confident,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5qI39aEoX
a little too good in coding,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBis6vCM8ho
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfu2WNZxUj
blooming with direction and privilege,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9X9bp0fW0J
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDkSpavrL6
quiet, almost invisible,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbMBCu3XRF
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXuSaTyi8t7
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYNzCls3Qu
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNyO0STx3k
Top of the class in both code and core.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvx6YwuWzRC
I met him through Simon —130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1BqihmdfO
and oddly enough,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGSltJpJeZQ
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInefUaLHrC
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuAzcRDGvc
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxGhv745J1
To my surprise — or maybe not —130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIm07QPt1yC
I was placed in Batch 1.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLNFey8peWq
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnV5vXW3Jva
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4tyFwTR80q
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRijzBVKqjN
Never too visible, never too prepared.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ79fKe1zJTP
I relied on people.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuov7U1pgU0
My laziness demanded a soft network.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYg5eKWjJlW
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWFmKsRRRT
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYGMgf7o2oc
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCH3BUM2Et
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawSbXdyNjl
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWhL0DCZ5j0
An ambitious venture.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMbrpwmCBO
A bridge between logic and imagination.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVskrDdLSrq
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1PxwGJxGY
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4EqYoXuu0V
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMrCmNqlReB
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGc5l2FgJs
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQrKdaaxeMU
A poet.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd9Rz3l1rqj
A cook.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5SOSx6ziuS
A coder.
And most of all,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHfDiiLJyCe
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNyhfe6WUZ
He whispered them.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjOvsUnmGy2
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNot7tl4zxr
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeywX8FJMom
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDwPDEWHxU
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEiQ6sJcRe
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlEIBuLBB8l
All of them.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdhv8oD5blt
Not as classmates, or peers,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1g1wG48Ga
but as flowers —130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tTiirnvL9
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6N05eCX24g
somewhere in that garden.
