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.
and then Add to home screen.