Time doesn’t always move forward.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rogR5kwh7
Sometimes, it spirals.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyvZzyPtST
Pulling new people into our orbit.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJnaOaTX16
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMDGpTi2YR
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNtIS0tqGW
Both from CSE.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz67qJJQYH0
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡraiknUf37z
both from her class.
The first was Richard —37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7wIXUiJE6
a friend of Ren and Krish,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1vL0MxiGy
connected, confident,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ntmMEC0Ef
a little too good in coding,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULgMJFuNno
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazS0Er2O87
blooming with direction and privilege,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlZHqjBjmwm
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxO5py4fGJ4
quiet, almost invisible,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2hjcpECzVA
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNgWXRMLQz
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjEsvpcOVoC
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5W0Ngmye6x
Top of the class in both code and core.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaDXM6TA1UF
I met him through Simon —37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnAwvs9RFp
and oddly enough,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamrt7gVzRz
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDuZQeMPuY
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlFJOdVZaQ
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEICnEEqx0c
To my surprise — or maybe not —37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItW8nHt31e
I was placed in Batch 1.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLXhrLALRD
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZVhXKby5j5
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2d4dybHmy
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2EakqYcrs
Never too visible, never too prepared.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSBMApnMUH
I relied on people.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaoYUKEEWsk
My laziness demanded a soft network.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFytH3yyzQw
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDKyZL3YKg
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVFFLkIDpA
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1QMuL8ETY
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkawh21JEi
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG6AbgfUaJj
An ambitious venture.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ74UTSHsjCC
A bridge between logic and imagination.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FMUM85DEY
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQ8p82RzZ4
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlE9gfCKd6
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08zqYBsP6X
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3qOTNBim6J
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8D4MhiJZJd
A poet.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFKr9wSPqy
A cook.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QvWVuwciE
A coder.
And most of all,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVMMszvuic
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UXw7YvPQ4
He whispered them.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqf3wIndbYe
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbXkKB03zw
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhW41mVYKA
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZBpRfeKoU
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECHRJaa7JU
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGRUdnTgdE
All of them.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejJNtzveyL
Not as classmates, or peers,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4nM1gLfLo0
but as flowers —37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBOjNoTnUS
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJpvdXQ1VUn
somewhere in that garden.
