Time doesn’t always move forward.131Please respect copyright.PENANAwm6usDMaAP
Sometimes, it spirals.131Please respect copyright.PENANAXIn84jykf7
Pulling new people into our orbit.131Please respect copyright.PENANAoljp3pQ4Ka
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.131Please respect copyright.PENANAOj9QoWIsNw
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.131Please respect copyright.PENANAlCg93F0vEN
Both from CSE.131Please respect copyright.PENANA4PaTgfOXDv
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —131Please respect copyright.PENANAYFOKIUNosl
both from her class.
The first was Richard —131Please respect copyright.PENANAZYoqOiMhHG
a friend of Ren and Krish,131Please respect copyright.PENANAjIq6sLNGpQ
connected, confident,131Please respect copyright.PENANANwXVBafTu9
a little too good in coding,131Please respect copyright.PENANA9KGgapud1G
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —131Please respect copyright.PENANA2A50YrE3mj
blooming with direction and privilege,131Please respect copyright.PENANA6h8WkDDb4L
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —131Please respect copyright.PENANAG5lpYgP8ml
quiet, almost invisible,131Please respect copyright.PENANAhq8atLkXvy
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.131Please respect copyright.PENANAkyRjJ91Bnt
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,131Please respect copyright.PENANAyqUn6yaygO
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.131Please respect copyright.PENANAndK3szjNhf
Top of the class in both code and core.131Please respect copyright.PENANAStAAd96Ec1
I met him through Simon —131Please respect copyright.PENANAa4kjBbDXSg
and oddly enough,131Please respect copyright.PENANA7H8mcdebh3
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.131Please respect copyright.PENANAP2CBBE0jHF
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.131Please respect copyright.PENANAJx4FPDFTJF
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.131Please respect copyright.PENANAD7OtEHaftL
To my surprise — or maybe not —131Please respect copyright.PENANA0a4s3iN0ii
I was placed in Batch 1.131Please respect copyright.PENANAAqVdDMz55E
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.131Please respect copyright.PENANAGOJrfZRcJ7
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.131Please respect copyright.PENANAH2AYMpIEbe
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.131Please respect copyright.PENANAXo7mkNnSx1
Never too visible, never too prepared.131Please respect copyright.PENANAHBbFiYLrAp
I relied on people.131Please respect copyright.PENANAC5R0KRBmW4
My laziness demanded a soft network.131Please respect copyright.PENANAWgwvSLPWNG
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,131Please respect copyright.PENANA6yWjj3zV8F
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —131Please respect copyright.PENANAEFujssIQA9
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,131Please respect copyright.PENANAbfXgxII1nz
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.131Please respect copyright.PENANAO4HKAV0y5m
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.131Please respect copyright.PENANAKJmz9z4kSG
An ambitious venture.131Please respect copyright.PENANAifF0vracHT
A bridge between logic and imagination.131Please respect copyright.PENANAc9DxSOfj2r
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,131Please respect copyright.PENANACGv6SdI9ic
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...131Please respect copyright.PENANA4xDIrp2EtC
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —131Please respect copyright.PENANANseLKXkVjk
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.131Please respect copyright.PENANAOGhbEco9zb
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.131Please respect copyright.PENANA7omWicq1h6
A poet.131Please respect copyright.PENANAnOi6Auva0N
A cook.131Please respect copyright.PENANANlacXJ56u5
A coder.
And most of all,131Please respect copyright.PENANAz7gjzBxt7Y
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.131Please respect copyright.PENANApNBACwlLn4
He whispered them.131Please respect copyright.PENANAKV0vT7PMDe
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.131Please respect copyright.PENANAkFsJc0Hyrw
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…131Please respect copyright.PENANAu5akqhWLdJ
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.131Please respect copyright.PENANAhscD0R28ql
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —131Please respect copyright.PENANA52UFpGlCM2
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.131Please respect copyright.PENANA1EOjPwcyEo
All of them.131Please respect copyright.PENANAoq0BlM1ba6
Not as classmates, or peers,131Please respect copyright.PENANA1pKi1zAaBX
but as flowers —131Please respect copyright.PENANAW9wucT5fc9
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,131Please respect copyright.PENANAnj8e9GY9oh
somewhere in that garden.