Time doesn’t always move forward.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDKxisDnTkG
Sometimes, it spirals.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2sdCEzVNbE
Pulling new people into our orbit.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiW3iYTV9WO
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZiJmPy4rRH
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LCq8OGUkd
Both from CSE.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhnmIZnWsoN
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTnjfflLGje
both from her class.
The first was Richard —72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZaapmivoK
a friend of Ren and Krish,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWElxSaLvz
connected, confident,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQAfhjUdCB
a little too good in coding,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLUPOjJiSXw
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmIuulWf1l
blooming with direction and privilege,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNB9hNRTqJ8
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLJOxE8ZGP
quiet, almost invisible,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cO1lqOtsQ
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMEHz8DQRm
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecRDHiCBWD
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9Dsjad8Co
Top of the class in both code and core.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQK4lTDbIk
I met him through Simon —72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptNelu95VT
and oddly enough,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOttSY80rX
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YBqQngzd3
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKD42XZ2weF
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9GzIqP9CI
To my surprise — or maybe not —72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpoEvMUW67
I was placed in Batch 1.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrGWN2z7ELH
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29ljLbGbYg
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6KdoSbecK
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJJDbApup8C
Never too visible, never too prepared.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jzq4Utl9z
I relied on people.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPmnESn5ak
My laziness demanded a soft network.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGAYJCdIvY
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupHev0G9MH
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQcLLXVbJE
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffIFcnR5Rv
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLGJNJBVvW
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT12snOJCTI
An ambitious venture.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJmAfQPXMqw
A bridge between logic and imagination.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKpdxhSGZB
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOql1MQnaQh
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJXlqSFd0Q
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX3N5jRwqQx
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8jpk0VhZo
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJ22xstWOP
A poet.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovhnUHyg5X
A cook.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSKTnfnra7
A coder.
And most of all,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1sjQjWqWEY
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKLQu8HLDAB
He whispered them.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMDTczuLYy
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IccIYGbNk
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJICx7GnBc
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUV9wMq9Lsg
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDHwWHfiQ1
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4wsbL2lKv
All of them.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCatJWoVrKH
Not as classmates, or peers,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1CPzjEb2sw
but as flowers —72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSt92myTAh4
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn64Z7Y6tZ9
somewhere in that garden.
and then Add to home screen.