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.