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.