Time doesn’t always move forward.132Please respect copyright.PENANArPdcjeb6R1
Sometimes, it spirals.132Please respect copyright.PENANAaG58X7kVhj
Pulling new people into our orbit.132Please respect copyright.PENANAug55Igev9L
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.132Please respect copyright.PENANAr9jKmSa0ue
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.132Please respect copyright.PENANAfZH8drnEJR
Both from CSE.132Please respect copyright.PENANADwAG2qMb1S
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —132Please respect copyright.PENANAjBgyaAd6ck
both from her class.
The first was Richard —132Please respect copyright.PENANAgUSo1bFVJm
a friend of Ren and Krish,132Please respect copyright.PENANAHlffVT78l7
connected, confident,132Please respect copyright.PENANA91Bt7fJd2A
a little too good in coding,132Please respect copyright.PENANAvCJKpdJ6JM
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —132Please respect copyright.PENANANMREeFgmaB
blooming with direction and privilege,132Please respect copyright.PENANAXcMWLNqW5i
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —132Please respect copyright.PENANANF8OBpx5kR
quiet, almost invisible,132Please respect copyright.PENANAx7waX06vbc
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.132Please respect copyright.PENANAOMf7ecHgA5
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,132Please respect copyright.PENANAjJMOF4gBeR
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.132Please respect copyright.PENANAmfpjyuN15d
Top of the class in both code and core.132Please respect copyright.PENANAOqNlqpZKb4
I met him through Simon —132Please respect copyright.PENANAqWExHR8WFw
and oddly enough,132Please respect copyright.PENANANGNjuY7lmo
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.132Please respect copyright.PENANANDK5obsNIf
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.132Please respect copyright.PENANA3GcREaEfG4
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.132Please respect copyright.PENANAtrcFTqB5AF
To my surprise — or maybe not —132Please respect copyright.PENANAHD7H4h1tlc
I was placed in Batch 1.132Please respect copyright.PENANAkhlRfnprW1
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.132Please respect copyright.PENANA4qpU0xA5Um
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.132Please respect copyright.PENANAxKJtQDwmc7
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.132Please respect copyright.PENANAPg2dEJ1eKS
Never too visible, never too prepared.132Please respect copyright.PENANAlbdhYVRgMP
I relied on people.132Please respect copyright.PENANALFvdgD3Uwb
My laziness demanded a soft network.132Please respect copyright.PENANAIXJ2YHWXYD
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,132Please respect copyright.PENANAlyHYLIq2Zs
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —132Please respect copyright.PENANACMRJN7Qdm4
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,132Please respect copyright.PENANAbpGiowISS1
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.132Please respect copyright.PENANAEJtPDUZLnU
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.132Please respect copyright.PENANAVflSTgR96u
An ambitious venture.132Please respect copyright.PENANAtWZFgHYFQh
A bridge between logic and imagination.132Please respect copyright.PENANA8d9QhGjDmo
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,132Please respect copyright.PENANAANsmL36LLC
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...132Please respect copyright.PENANAUuYY9NGEvx
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —132Please respect copyright.PENANAE8EcnSTMka
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.132Please respect copyright.PENANAeVIN4qpKCf
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.132Please respect copyright.PENANAx2Wjqmd5Py
A poet.132Please respect copyright.PENANAwu8ugWrCwz
A cook.132Please respect copyright.PENANAa44L2Z0ytw
A coder.
And most of all,132Please respect copyright.PENANA4cJTdmMIPS
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.132Please respect copyright.PENANANQSBK1M9IQ
He whispered them.132Please respect copyright.PENANA4ubQ1AK3E2
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.132Please respect copyright.PENANAdn0YMYteOU
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…132Please respect copyright.PENANAL1OYHvSVkv
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.132Please respect copyright.PENANAp3Cm4VJX7u
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —132Please respect copyright.PENANAyhIDFpiFne
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.132Please respect copyright.PENANAey6KZLXeZr
All of them.132Please respect copyright.PENANAY5x0wByVVD
Not as classmates, or peers,132Please respect copyright.PENANAg48Elvo1w4
but as flowers —132Please respect copyright.PENANAXifHI5Bqu3
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,132Please respect copyright.PENANAmXMy5OJjiQ
somewhere in that garden.