At the end of the semester,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCHuPSB24s
when the books were closed,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYkmIMB5iv
and the codes had settled into the silence of completion,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS3KKlXtrx7
we were handed something new —362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUsedwDoZW
a task beyond classrooms and labs.
They called it the CSP —362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoXAy1nXZI
Community Service Project.
It was meant to connect us with the world outside —362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSStw717WNW
to give back, maybe.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzrQMK949ja
But for me, it felt more like a pause,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXhGkEl6vd
a breath before the next rush.
I didn’t choose my team.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Py6keLhAp
Or maybe, the team chose me.
It was me,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKPEqlaDCQ
Merry and Bettie — two girls from my class362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZD8WccdAtR
who shared more smiles than words with me,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5BXid6x8T
and Harry, my friend —362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4lCTIVguI
more chaos than calm, but a comfort all the same.
We were a team.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6uIIlAbgzq
Somewhat random, but real.
Our project was rooted in Rajahmundry.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxdcXO9teS
A place far from our usual walls,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLkA7vC9V6
where we were to explore farming,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVUm7QRERZ7
to understand flowers, roots, and the earth itself.
It was poetic, in a way.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2UbhSvwN6y
After all, hadn’t this year been about blooming too?
But there she was again.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uiSllqtGG
Forevermore.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqv9NanMLSq
And she had her own project, her own path.
With Ren, of course.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuyAZ9VURG
And that girl I met during the festival.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYKQhIR3YI
A few others I didn’t know, but it didn’t matter.
They were a team.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmxApa18iDg
Separate.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd005YJD0AR
Like two parallel poems written in the same language,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBJPqMpd8m
but never on the same page.
We left the city on the same day,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIu2OmvShzW
as if chasing the same sunrise from two different windows.
She took the bus.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0AoA2ih53
I rode a bike.
Same roads, different rhythms.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0szyMBLSo
That was how it had always been, wasn’t it?
May ended in sweat and soil,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNXlg6oVFb
laughter echoing in quiet villages,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGOzxFUcl7
us pretending to be farmers, observers, volunteers.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmxcKTdFagp
Somewhere in between the heat and haze,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1DlT7BYXP9
we completed what was asked of us.
But more than the project,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQUPzOWE4N
it was the people.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLoNc4cjifZ
The little moments.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdiNACCZBah
The jokes, the long walks back from fields.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQO21ErMhX
Not everything has to be profound.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVS1RPJhOdn
Sometimes, simplicity leaves the deepest roots.
And then,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxvpQlByDP
came the results.
By late July,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfdtoy2fkRS
we were handed the truth of our first year.
CGPA: 8.88
Better than I expected.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3pCSL8pqDe
Worse than I pretended I didn’t care.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe4SVVsIURA
It was a number, yes.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5d9lqAIiMR
But also a weight lifted.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡodfl4M5A2d
A reminder that despite everything —362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVXSTpBrgl
I survived, I coded, I lived.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJJzuzRmE3
And maybe even bloomed a little.
The second year wasn’t knocking.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxa83kimXT
It was already breaking in.
A whole new chapter —362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn60kQmgJJJ
new faces, maybe some old ones too.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFYEKYE7zA
But more than anything,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZBl4E66wd
new choices.
And I...362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMw4RzZimyg
was still carrying the echoes of a name I carved softly into my soul.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwE3qUxU6vV
and then Add to home screen.