Time doesn’t always move forward.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj41j4ZMUhQ
Sometimes, it spirals.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCeSxAsw08
Pulling new people into our orbit.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7I9g8cVtb
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1yxjdHAip
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCh52kpA9p
Both from CSE.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5vsJsyBCv
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdh3LIukRF
both from her class.
The first was Richard —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvP5an2n6qJ
a friend of Ren and Krish,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡceG70dIMri
connected, confident,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZY6BoRz7e
a little too good in coding,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGALkvhERZ
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2LxWJK5iHM
blooming with direction and privilege,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDCxYaZgQP
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonr6qsCaXJ
quiet, almost invisible,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1cGVabCKnC
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERvTXflciS
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KUk5nr9eO
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr9L9GGDQBk
Top of the class in both code and core.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1uBsHglTe
I met him through Simon —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8r1dOCaPTs
and oddly enough,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuxTA6PCIs
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93x1SP7lqQ
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4ZBRVu3kk
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv658Z82sRz
To my surprise — or maybe not —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenRAaMFh0t
I was placed in Batch 1.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kIejTSLOl
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd31DTHzY5d
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffhpd9xW5I
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdcTULyxjI
Never too visible, never too prepared.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJUmSw2HpW
I relied on people.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCSD9FQuWCR
My laziness demanded a soft network.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYQrIjhtxO
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsg8k9fZNE7
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1V6qD2tznV
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nmwjp6ivH
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6BfZrJc7JT
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ630iiUqyY
An ambitious venture.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrU2xcInNX
A bridge between logic and imagination.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Z8wdihCnt
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkXPTAB4VX
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAa7SBPiSE
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnyH00S2GWr
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcWyW3ZMDGd
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEpY0ZP8xK
A poet.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05KKYq8D8O
A cook.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjNcahY6dGR
A coder.
And most of all,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqYdeFKvIT
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgElaSyqwU
He whispered them.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmKr6e9HsD
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ufDQoYcXp
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91w8iFf5Xf
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXdQCPnICx
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpAk6LEyJd
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSM8cXBYaOp
All of them.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5V7eeFebO
Not as classmates, or peers,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtacEqpD7h
but as flowers —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuVZku2ZFv
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKr5443bHg
somewhere in that garden.
and then Add to home screen.