Time doesn’t always move forward.128Please respect copyright.PENANAL7FPqrIyew
Sometimes, it spirals.128Please respect copyright.PENANAY4ScLCbyR1
Pulling new people into our orbit.128Please respect copyright.PENANAL5cyjv3FU7
Some arrive with noise. Some with silence.128Please respect copyright.PENANAkSl2RxuMQp
And some simply grow… like flowers.
In Thub, I met two more petals in the garden of this strange semester.128Please respect copyright.PENANAvbX91PpJU0
Both from CSE.128Please respect copyright.PENANABwfaTZvMGK
Both somehow close to Forevermore’s world —128Please respect copyright.PENANASC1AdYRyv7
both from her class.
The first was Richard —128Please respect copyright.PENANAuA1PHzDLEz
a friend of Ren and Krish,128Please respect copyright.PENANAOwgfRSIQYg
connected, confident,128Please respect copyright.PENANAi5NN5l8IVP
a little too good in coding,128Please respect copyright.PENANA3sKIUduI2A
a little too sure of himself.
A Dream Flower —128Please respect copyright.PENANAOCAGjRknkN
blooming with direction and privilege,128Please respect copyright.PENANAhjY4Xl887t
with roots that never had to fight the soil.
The second was Ramu —128Please respect copyright.PENANAKe479BxwiX
quiet, almost invisible,128Please respect copyright.PENANAInvWZEqONc
but with a light that didn’t need to be loud.
A Hopeless Flower, if I may.128Please respect copyright.PENANABYd6JwfdtQ
The kind that blossoms under moonlight,128Please respect copyright.PENANAneYSYN4NjS
in silence, in stillness.
He was brilliant.128Please respect copyright.PENANAqBujaozmFf
Top of the class in both code and core.128Please respect copyright.PENANAFZFMMInYWZ
I met him through Simon —128Please respect copyright.PENANAhd7RQSJrdQ
and oddly enough,128Please respect copyright.PENANA4vhzaNiJWR
Simon and Ramu shared a bond I couldn’t decode.128Please respect copyright.PENANA78gsXWlZPc
A strange comfort, like they were made of the same still water.128Please respect copyright.PENANARflMVgwMNE
And I… I merely drifted into their tide.
As the semester settled, the batch lists were drawn.128Please respect copyright.PENANA5mURx0buRy
To my surprise — or maybe not —128Please respect copyright.PENANAaOkwwgeiqV
I was placed in Batch 1.128Please respect copyright.PENANAc2QSg1AVfm
A place where the spotlight flickers a little more intensely.
That’s where I properly met Richard and Ramu.128Please respect copyright.PENANATum2sdeFNZ
And that’s when my rhythm with them began.128Please respect copyright.PENANAydQVTA1LfC
Our codes spoke before we did.
In academics, I moved like mist.128Please respect copyright.PENANArmOaUWXgrQ
Never too visible, never too prepared.128Please respect copyright.PENANA2iE8K1tplD
I relied on people.128Please respect copyright.PENANA8W8mY8mwY8
My laziness demanded a soft network.128Please respect copyright.PENANAfgzNhCeool
I needed people to cover my back so I could care a little less,128Please respect copyright.PENANAs3Y6d9O3xc
and create a little more.
Then came something unexpected —128Please respect copyright.PENANAvieI25j5iC
Codeblooded.
A student club under TechnicalHub,128Please respect copyright.PENANA1HmkVBsWKq
and I was selected alongside Richard and Ramu.128Please respect copyright.PENANAvoCKMfzdkz
The first time my name was written alongside something larger.
Code Engine was our first event.128Please respect copyright.PENANAEbDvjWAGVW
An ambitious venture.128Please respect copyright.PENANAVnGk8GIAGr
A bridge between logic and imagination.128Please respect copyright.PENANAmdrik6KDmR
Where we introduced coding to all BTech students,128Please respect copyright.PENANAKgLKahoo1X
like a spark passed from hand to hand.
And there...128Please respect copyright.PENANAkSc2XzokGK
I met another Hopeless Flower.
His name was Ravikanth —128Please respect copyright.PENANAUlW5JIY7jV
a third-year CSE student from the First Campus.128Please respect copyright.PENANAqReSaJAcG4
A senior, yes. But he felt like a twin soul, aged by just a year.
A gamer.128Please respect copyright.PENANAbyMp4LYn0u
A poet.128Please respect copyright.PENANA7uS5mAGduu
A cook.128Please respect copyright.PENANAqMOUuWWOjj
A coder.
And most of all,128Please respect copyright.PENANA4PjUxMvHO5
a quiet rebel in a world full of performances.
I admired him.
Because he didn’t scream his dreams.128Please respect copyright.PENANANQ0IIXqTqi
He whispered them.128Please respect copyright.PENANA863sh6t9O6
And still made you believe.
He was the kind of hopeless that dares to hope anyway.128Please respect copyright.PENANALu0PGlSaee
The kind of flower that dares to bloom in frost.
And maybe…128Please respect copyright.PENANASBGJrcJZk6
I was one too.
Just a little less brave.
We never realize how many people shape our journey.128Please respect copyright.PENANAANmGoUTRel
How each connection — accidental, intentional, or just seasonal —128Please respect copyright.PENANA287ew2DB4Y
adds a line to the story.
But I remember them.128Please respect copyright.PENANAXIB2UJItD4
All of them.128Please respect copyright.PENANAUTqguVp1VR
Not as classmates, or peers,128Please respect copyright.PENANACnewZ97izY
but as flowers —128Please respect copyright.PENANAjQIb38BSTN
growing under the same uncertain sky.
And me,128Please respect copyright.PENANA7SNBNK8MEQ
somewhere in that garden.