Time doesn’t always move forward.135Please respect copyright.PENANA4e0DtM0NDo
Sometimes, it spirals.135Please respect copyright.PENANAuARN5Lu9tF
Pulling new people into our orbit.135Please respect copyright.PENANAFuu2B1oA3k
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.135Please respect copyright.PENANANZlLuVoWoW
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.135Please respect copyright.PENANArhGuuLl1Og
Both from CSE.135Please respect copyright.PENANAX7u7VGl5GC
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —135Please respect copyright.PENANAGAUM7AgbWY
both from her class.
The first was Richard —135Please respect copyright.PENANAYfBRHcOfc9
a friend of Ren and Krish,135Please respect copyright.PENANAKuLNPlnyzb
connected, confident,135Please respect copyright.PENANA2MKBJ7Rar4
a little too good in coding,135Please respect copyright.PENANASOb6hgADVf
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —135Please respect copyright.PENANAx9KExAu0iD
blooming with direction and privilege,135Please respect copyright.PENANAPoW6mGbS3R
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —135Please respect copyright.PENANAQj97CFHX8w
quiet, almost invisible,135Please respect copyright.PENANAvU3Yh1ncf8
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.135Please respect copyright.PENANAGALJNKPezW
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,135Please respect copyright.PENANAOFpM1rizFd
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.135Please respect copyright.PENANAQObIBHA4R7
Top of the class in both code and core.135Please respect copyright.PENANAEQ7T1XKt4b
I met him through Simon —135Please respect copyright.PENANArIUrRIyUuL
and oddly enough,135Please respect copyright.PENANAs6i0puBb9Q
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.135Please respect copyright.PENANACUhsjjkvr0
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.135Please respect copyright.PENANAUIwfQj9aNH
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.135Please respect copyright.PENANA25THQ3yyst
To my surprise — or maybe not —135Please respect copyright.PENANAfNSFK3X7eS
I was placed in Batch 1.135Please respect copyright.PENANAOvWVIULppL
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.135Please respect copyright.PENANAptHKnMmovR
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.135Please respect copyright.PENANACxbuFZtJbm
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.135Please respect copyright.PENANArt1Cxo2kFq
Never too visible, never too prepared.135Please respect copyright.PENANAIs1NugII0E
I relied on people.135Please respect copyright.PENANAl9TtRB0nDn
My laziness demanded a soft network.135Please respect copyright.PENANAnBrpqmwNJu
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,135Please respect copyright.PENANALdaKTwXFRG
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —135Please respect copyright.PENANAf6xeLXiS8y
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,135Please respect copyright.PENANAFILnVocLoe
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.135Please respect copyright.PENANARjB6L9QWUv
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.135Please respect copyright.PENANAhD8tltOCjq
An ambitious venture.135Please respect copyright.PENANANU26qkvNT4
A bridge between logic and imagination.135Please respect copyright.PENANANUjwSZz7R2
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,135Please respect copyright.PENANATWZkAqsSdq
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...135Please respect copyright.PENANARvqN0CvIq7
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —135Please respect copyright.PENANAi1wFXl50ba
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.135Please respect copyright.PENANA6LlxGlJLB2
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.135Please respect copyright.PENANAgvyZd6SjgK
A poet.135Please respect copyright.PENANATRFnCQlQol
A cook.135Please respect copyright.PENANAtM7DZTpWZk
A coder.
And most of all,135Please respect copyright.PENANAptdP4WBUpO
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.135Please respect copyright.PENANAgoLe10K875
He whispered them.135Please respect copyright.PENANAXL1htJvbh7
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.135Please respect copyright.PENANAnZyj38aVgF
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…135Please respect copyright.PENANARg3RxrIrSc
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.135Please respect copyright.PENANA0vz7yk61vd
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —135Please respect copyright.PENANANg9U7jMnKg
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.135Please respect copyright.PENANA0dSQuxUch5
All of them.135Please respect copyright.PENANAuGlUegfzOx
Not as classmates, or peers,135Please respect copyright.PENANAYifgPkMrYa
but as flowers —135Please respect copyright.PENANApEdnF5Z9aG
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,135Please respect copyright.PENANAyKg0zZ3Oky
somewhere in that garden.