Time doesn’t always move forward.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUiSEXTtBYc
Sometimes, it spirals.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMuP70KDjju
Pulling new people into our orbit.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFmhiuShTgh
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMNapnStDKQ
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCFBRLl3sI6
Both from CSE.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5W1G9afPk
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvdEObOU6U
both from her class.
The first was Richard —123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Dp73cov01
a friend of Ren and Krish,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJAY5RrND3
connected, confident,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwmFavUjUM
a little too good in coding,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcsk61XbbO
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2AO9fL0WJK
blooming with direction and privilege,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qfqjxrq2J
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpyTK5DYo7T
quiet, almost invisible,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwqqdtAHFL
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4orIMpw0y
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQ9a0xiHU8
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZsscU6QkDV
Top of the class in both code and core.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TsUFDB9Qq
I met him through Simon —123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPzgGOgwel
and oddly enough,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhnC6xhy1OU
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXmBlcsx2u
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyn2joX3PwH
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbSkyeK7dx
To my surprise — or maybe not —123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwB1tEtcurM
I was placed in Batch 1.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuVa6V449j
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjzJuydAQL5
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXjJ6WAny5
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nbY3Hh208
Never too visible, never too prepared.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKRd46iQk4
I relied on people.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPmK2Eek0h
My laziness demanded a soft network.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs78UboSYFW
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbE7fx70kYz
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmSfziwKI5
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhpSFLnjZO
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JAARUvzhT
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7o6d8NP1AQ
An ambitious venture.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDrpU62EYg
A bridge between logic and imagination.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1tZfN4Fsh
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAXYGJeco2h
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXcBMmauP5S
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjzdqc68xep
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycEA7o70i5
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ioa5smAn1
A poet.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqw2NfhqEZl
A cook.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZP0nnDeKOd
A coder.
And most of all,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkhXp8Atli
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkaeLR9UxO
He whispered them.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡseAqSpspc8
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8O3bQPpbo0
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLccBj434q
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4yDL9qruUx
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcCQCdF7yu
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAe0eJUf1Z
All of them.123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLqhCrIyJw
Not as classmates, or peers,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapWyLzxbmq
but as flowers —123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrY9UIYoy74
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,123Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmmAcjPb1C
somewhere in that garden.
and then Add to home screen.