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.