Time doesn’t always move forward.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjM0pqn3xkL
Sometimes, it spirals.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPh6KzI6eg
Pulling new people into our orbit.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5Xc8C1P73
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo3RIyCyGs6
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYgJw7FZOp
Both from CSE.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCaW8y1rxtY
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnBJjmbpfCC
both from her class.
The first was Richard —360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ8sP09E7zt
a friend of Ren and Krish,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfvLfP2hwmq
connected, confident,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH8EyTxSMf3
a little too good in coding,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmVT9DntDe
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt5beJBfgs0
blooming with direction and privilege,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNMisgkYTRO
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJwlVCAQbR
quiet, almost invisible,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1KynwGOsnb
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JMspiczz0
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdOkMwtVaL
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDH0V1PTxO2
Top of the class in both code and core.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD00LxM0liE
I met him through Simon —360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCptC8wBq2
and oddly enough,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFjXx39PGf
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGumHCiLRV2
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDklEMnxwa
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6Cj98huh1
To my surprise — or maybe not —360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu80Df5yo42
I was placed in Batch 1.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpPSazT89r
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjlCEarVnj
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsTfIs4pO0
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPtMjxQA2l4
Never too visible, never too prepared.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZA3MKv6Yh
I relied on people.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCzaC53ryGH
My laziness demanded a soft network.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZwJufjQhZ
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuwFc1B3zFb
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0a9fYgHiZG
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5cjruyB0T
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lBsLZRXSL
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1GzDAdaUf
An ambitious venture.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOXSZElNJr
A bridge between logic and imagination.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8uBmbZKwF
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7Hx0ay5kQ
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcop74BYbS
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRkhRDmt3i
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cy8xZYZhr
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa81XC1CbBN
A poet.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8yfb6R44c
A cook.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPUbWErHM1
A coder.
And most of all,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFoF1nqtln
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXASyYewhw
He whispered them.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpgdXRyUMTJ
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LHAXZEBP8
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFZydkm0zH
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDd4NKHEMG
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu15bii6US7
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnj1eLqtgU
All of them.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5udJWW8EtK
Not as classmates, or peers,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ45pZOOIC5
but as flowers —360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0T9izFmMX
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TLCyrd8VY
somewhere in that garden.
and then Add to home screen.