At the end of the semester,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGTvQsY84U
when the books were closed,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FiCnmoFB1
and the codes had settled into the silence of completion,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXunkqdeer
we were handed something new —47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehGYwzbPHC
a task beyond classrooms and labs.
They called it the CSP —47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iRyVTNfe6
Community Service Project.
It was meant to connect us with the world outside —47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAusfJ0zclG
to give back, maybe.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkpq2llGSE
But for me, it felt more like a pause,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhHiJxeJo1
a breath before the next rush.
I didn’t choose my team.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNHmXK0XdQ
Or maybe, the team chose me.
It was me,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLkxSkqbZKA
Merry and Bettie — two girls from my class47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlI0LFDTx5O
who shared more smiles than words with me,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YwNHdj8yV
and Harry, my friend —47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Fcsy3DGxJ
more chaos than calm, but a comfort all the same.
We were a team.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkuErJcEKA
Somewhat random, but real.
Our project was rooted in Rajahmundry.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6fF5pOLHx
A place far from our usual walls,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJg4BjOODVP
where we were to explore farming,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOSdr9kAJN
to understand flowers, roots, and the earth itself.
It was poetic, in a way.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ403yThl1kE
After all, hadn’t this year been about blooming too?
But there she was again.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOPdrIE414
Forevermore.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2o5BLLEdPI
And she had her own project, her own path.
With Ren, of course.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVG9er3alQ5
And that girl I met during the festival.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1TGFTclsU
A few others I didn’t know, but it didn’t matter.
They were a team.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVG5yWaQDc6
Separate.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXd5C7jkuab
Like two parallel poems written in the same language,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYrnHUM7yq
but never on the same page.
We left the city on the same day,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunt8GGxxW2
as if chasing the same sunrise from two different windows.
She took the bus.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0CF94yfAc
I rode a bike.
Same roads, different rhythms.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLndnMBwswZ
That was how it had always been, wasn’t it?
May ended in sweat and soil,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4rXnPgG60
laughter echoing in quiet villages,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMd6Sis0xS
us pretending to be farmers, observers, volunteers.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOWfxlfaql
Somewhere in between the heat and haze,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2agxer5WUN
we completed what was asked of us.
But more than the project,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTn1KfHDwLu
it was the people.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuwkg7Pseg
The little moments.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrieQ2PwBn
The jokes, the long walks back from fields.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9evk1NPIJc
Not everything has to be profound.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhyr9iFRRpe
Sometimes, simplicity leaves the deepest roots.
And then,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8ivy2ICwu
came the results.
By late July,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3CG19gqYb
we were handed the truth of our first year.
CGPA: 8.88
Better than I expected.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32s1dWqIQZ
Worse than I pretended I didn’t care.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS0y9jvD0r0
It was a number, yes.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKI35ybYwcy
But also a weight lifted.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1m176XuP05
A reminder that despite everything —47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUs2qQ3BQe9
I survived, I coded, I lived.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORmwsJEaD2
And maybe even bloomed a little.
The second year wasn’t knocking.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu0pQJZE2n7
It was already breaking in.
A whole new chapter —47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTtivfqiSK
new faces, maybe some old ones too.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdfeOuxBqf
But more than anything,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJwsFa3WWn
new choices.
And I...47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSa5O2nFSIM
was still carrying the echoes of a name I carved softly into my soul.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV954n2QV5K
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