At the end of the semester,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGgaFzuLCW
when the books were closed,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0ZGv5eMPl
and the codes had settled into the silence of completion,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJgvYfARMX
we were handed something new —126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4FDssngyJ
a task beyond classrooms and labs.
They called it the CSP —126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg8ZSDdWHvJ
Community Service Project.
It was meant to connect us with the world outside —126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizmoV983RV
to give back, maybe.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJBSazOZ9p
But for me, it felt more like a pause,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzY8z132kO
a breath before the next rush.
I didn’t choose my team.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZW6jkYOkXP
Or maybe, the team chose me.
It was me,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMh8M1gBa6m
Merry and Bettie — two girls from my class126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjcSnsXVAy
who shared more smiles than words with me,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kGU981TwW
and Harry, my friend —126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2zOevA68s7
more chaos than calm, but a comfort all the same.
We were a team.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9a7TMLKsHr
Somewhat random, but real.
Our project was rooted in Rajahmundry.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTH5A6tVwi
A place far from our usual walls,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhlbi0xBUlc
where we were to explore farming,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjWyNsgc8l
to understand flowers, roots, and the earth itself.
It was poetic, in a way.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEU30wd6gKV
After all, hadn’t this year been about blooming too?
But there she was again.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmcI5enU3A
Forevermore.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRbWXApi2H
And she had her own project, her own path.
With Ren, of course.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbcPiZtxVs
And that girl I met during the festival.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfBchGNnr3
A few others I didn’t know, but it didn’t matter.
They were a team.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMa0IidEM50
Separate.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofS0XvKJML
Like two parallel poems written in the same language,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPGUYM3Lvt
but never on the same page.
We left the city on the same day,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1D9bNsluv
as if chasing the same sunrise from two different windows.
She took the bus.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKwnwpK9ff
I rode a bike.
Same roads, different rhythms.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDNVZAR24c
That was how it had always been, wasn’t it?
May ended in sweat and soil,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32bFKEIxNL
laughter echoing in quiet villages,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIBEfkvTKsf
us pretending to be farmers, observers, volunteers.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmauIQyjT02
Somewhere in between the heat and haze,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdI3IxS630X
we completed what was asked of us.
But more than the project,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX3jZXtK7xO
it was the people.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYovJr7OJP
The little moments.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbAxIcTFNZ9
The jokes, the long walks back from fields.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdIa7mCS37
Not everything has to be profound.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ2ViCmj4VD
Sometimes, simplicity leaves the deepest roots.
And then,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Bb2kpm8uz
came the results.
By late July,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcV9Ei9SggC
we were handed the truth of our first year.
CGPA: 8.88
Better than I expected.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOoilG7tjr
Worse than I pretended I didn’t care.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHeOUnoObar
It was a number, yes.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrxvWkUoBA
But also a weight lifted.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhIiKp7fCc
A reminder that despite everything —126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJe1WyY45Ww
I survived, I coded, I lived.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtZT9p70o5
And maybe even bloomed a little.
The second year wasn’t knocking.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30mSGXPml5
It was already breaking in.
A whole new chapter —126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHeulTyZXyp
new faces, maybe some old ones too.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwcvoug3NC
But more than anything,126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ny3eQfaMg
new choices.
And I...126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmcgGIQsUd
was still carrying the echoes of a name I carved softly into my soul.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JUJZbsT3V
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