Time doesn’t always move forward.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3z2qQVYTLt
Sometimes, it spirals.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUu7AcHfZHd
Pulling new people into our orbit.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnbmfLn4sGd
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hGVgfp9xc
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFi45KTSFb8
Both from CSE.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCoTUkFd8An
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivluy8GfRw
both from her class.
The first was Richard —387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnXb99U8tht
a friend of Ren and Krish,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFO5BFFrbsJ
connected, confident,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfFRPN4uk5g
a little too good in coding,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jzGlNR8K0
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxWPLN3oX4
blooming with direction and privilege,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdasMz8aNb
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxekTqAJXQ
quiet, almost invisible,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoW2zAdXuMd
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSl7y5yqJl
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27zNOlD5jt
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhpXlWhOv5
Top of the class in both code and core.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVdFR9gbGD
I met him through Simon —387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHayOV80oNd
and oddly enough,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJCNp3bJLfJ
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwNP1uQwUs
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4Um0GpV2J
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfehY233os
To my surprise — or maybe not —387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqU5MWWZ7W8
I was placed in Batch 1.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaTmTKRW8e
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSXp3KEuKG
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKcAHSV9i8
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEHMZNnMpL
Never too visible, never too prepared.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wtV8Lx4Q7
I relied on people.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6QxQm9j1eu
My laziness demanded a soft network.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpXPYDgbWk
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5hWGnL10g
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiWSVUocWU
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJBrRqj1oF
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NaUMxgkK8
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJ76mjv1jh
An ambitious venture.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn96SDVnIN9
A bridge between logic and imagination.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0LofgIaJu
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMH6rsPx7r
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RMLRFV59M
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5XsBLpCxH
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5QKNB61bl
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFwcHHGrxs
A poet.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcT1PSM2Pmb
A cook.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnjhLAW8tJ
A coder.
And most of all,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ39PbT3y3ry
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqRPMZKy8P
He whispered them.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmd8e4B5Yn
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOOiNYDCds
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxEqySvefcV
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOO9RcaqmRw
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIn6AlzYd1c
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPpUdfzn0j
All of them.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIAPAWnfLui
Not as classmates, or peers,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhshsolEkr
but as flowers —387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlXDLKGbLe
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRlkN6XnRXu
somewhere in that garden.
and then Add to home screen.