Time doesn’t always move forward.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTVJdQISYe
Sometimes, it spirals.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3RTReFRu9
Pulling new people into our orbit.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKZ2P7vkIf
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIxD7T1evr
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mluSpzuDH
Both from CSE.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrMre6yXVQi
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOuvwlbXDF8
both from her class.
The first was Richard —71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7J5KnVZWeD
a friend of Ren and Krish,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI04oZBROpH
connected, confident,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoC98FbVrF
a little too good in coding,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSudxkyqXqd
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08ZPRLFXkE
blooming with direction and privilege,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEU3q7UE138
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7IBb8pFS4J
quiet, almost invisible,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwyshhO4q2
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoP0JRp2U3F
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs6JL9cXVH1
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjk3Eqw7y8
Top of the class in both code and core.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdaseYvafz
I met him through Simon —71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YToVoIGho
and oddly enough,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokAI4I7Ur9
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdX3AQP3pLZ
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGVllGTILwb
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9RJLT2ZWw
To my surprise — or maybe not —71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKmKNIL153
I was placed in Batch 1.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡooqNVHWPge
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡATBNZgE9s4
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQzzQCB2RB
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGruaSANeN
Never too visible, never too prepared.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFZ5QUIj5PN
I relied on people.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡleD1oyG5Wc
My laziness demanded a soft network.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJaW5MkZaE2
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3p8DyHmjN
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaBDBfWD7ak
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMeYZpnJTVB
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANOV7xcDnI
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0z2n8c9O4P
An ambitious venture.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0ipYebqJP
A bridge between logic and imagination.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkUL3rlIrB
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhwvzccG9C1
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZTQ7QAYG7
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYOsj2iTm5
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJFDFQiKqw
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzI3zg86CTP
A poet.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvmFMLFE46g
A cook.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawvJgs4mbm
A coder.
And most of all,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxmI5feTEX
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULq8CfDaFS
He whispered them.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2Ct9bAgyT
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiop7JEIBOQ
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIZavuzKKk
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymV99EL2Cg
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEiogoL7gZ
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzg1g2CkdF1
All of them.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDaFzfJXTNF
Not as classmates, or peers,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVEJF1ZO4U
but as flowers —71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2AtDYBrkCP
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTzOHdWSIa
somewhere in that garden.
and then Add to home screen.