Time doesn’t always move forward.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHf7h6HLfz3
Sometimes, it spirals.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrhAam4oBm1
Pulling new people into our orbit.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSK62nAAnK
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MXMLwA5JD
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCVInEIIQh
Both from CSE.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡue40m7V8QX
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtkSjQGb9J
both from her class.
The first was Richard —140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8uGUnbhtm
a friend of Ren and Krish,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlbELkUbT4i
connected, confident,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8WvMF4DxyN
a little too good in coding,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDdmX7mCdK6
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXwJXLOvJQ
blooming with direction and privilege,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgaQF09VFXa
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LeE0KTYBx
quiet, almost invisible,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaX1TRRgOQb
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq0kheWcDRj
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfWfPYH5bQ
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFzn0JTdUV
Top of the class in both code and core.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbQxvLTCaN
I met him through Simon —140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnUXFOuDZr
and oddly enough,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvceikBYoL
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfJYExK2L4
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjNHPuTLGE
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3TPWCcplG
To my surprise — or maybe not —140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGIrxtxDnpd
I was placed in Batch 1.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKLiABCIdD
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkjFXshQjd
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdAYicFGbS
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfzhOAIa6V
Never too visible, never too prepared.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTN0njjN2sW
I relied on people.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7VfVzb8l4
My laziness demanded a soft network.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdKFUxZKuK
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSxPnAgOuq
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdcNqtnee7
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVhFhdMalF
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyG4PfteJa
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuUOqFbT8hz
An ambitious venture.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTIKmrMbnR
A bridge between logic and imagination.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFTGVRf9uP
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHwBgC4HHm
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgZrAyDF9m
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSmSHAaprZ
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjH6ctVqNRw
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHr7qPLU7j
A poet.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhcLDaIVet
A cook.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQJJyioQPMw
A coder.
And most of all,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxQ7Maxju0
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeu7ZUOrvs5
He whispered them.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKligv81ibo
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOlAZygqae
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5tT76IuIFV
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1fxDJu2g9
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBxNrc31aA
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6fHUqufpkq
All of them.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzoHDbS9hQc
Not as classmates, or peers,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNWT0O2oTU
but as flowers —140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNobfKoCXw
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xlFJcnrbu
somewhere in that garden.
