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.
