At the end of the semester,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRrnODs4W7
when the books were closed,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0HM5gF1Hp
and the codes had settled into the silence of completion,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ567A5SUoZJ
we were handed something new —63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOoDCse6ZYY
a task beyond classrooms and labs.
They called it the CSP —63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGP5dWGwB8g
Community Service Project.
It was meant to connect us with the world outside —63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9NgiIgSbv9
to give back, maybe.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2DdB0E2IQD
But for me, it felt more like a pause,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOSEmCK0Js
a breath before the next rush.
I didn’t choose my team.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNYfKsELrW
Or maybe, the team chose me.
It was me,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTwrTq3FNp
Merry and Bettie — two girls from my class63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmb1udQnuOD
who shared more smiles than words with me,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCL0ygTHFjx
and Harry, my friend —63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EeBypfR1R
more chaos than calm, but a comfort all the same.
We were a team.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQv1YQqNZzh
Somewhat random, but real.
Our project was rooted in Rajahmundry.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufsjpxUrkQ
A place far from our usual walls,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5HsGAYiPl
where we were to explore farming,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBeG4opmbO
to understand flowers, roots, and the earth itself.
It was poetic, in a way.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7fpfHaZhMe
After all, hadn’t this year been about blooming too?
But there she was again.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkv5vdO75i7
Forevermore.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3965aW32K8
And she had her own project, her own path.
With Ren, of course.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSuPNTw6iG
And that girl I met during the festival.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkLwmC3mZZk
A few others I didn’t know, but it didn’t matter.
They were a team.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5blBZrLor4
Separate.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYX2NIQum3o
Like two parallel poems written in the same language,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBtoC2xphNs
but never on the same page.
We left the city on the same day,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO7FjAD21rf
as if chasing the same sunrise from two different windows.
She took the bus.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8UfQ1OmUHv
I rode a bike.
Same roads, different rhythms.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3kUaS1Yof
That was how it had always been, wasn’t it?
May ended in sweat and soil,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0iVZDAXowG
laughter echoing in quiet villages,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmR634Pq7ii
us pretending to be farmers, observers, volunteers.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJbipRcEKZ
Somewhere in between the heat and haze,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SlgWhHYqZ
we completed what was asked of us.
But more than the project,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7F5ynk8vpb
it was the people.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqU8SLTJUUB
The little moments.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UHAjADSnR
The jokes, the long walks back from fields.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS9nBS2EBDe
Not everything has to be profound.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0r92ZKTubF
Sometimes, simplicity leaves the deepest roots.
And then,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgRapCvXJ1
came the results.
By late July,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoh9NnVpRY3
we were handed the truth of our first year.
CGPA: 8.88
Better than I expected.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYhGYFBnmgx
Worse than I pretended I didn’t care.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxq56lN6CC
It was a number, yes.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXfNMIxTdhP
But also a weight lifted.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRP5pCRNzUR
A reminder that despite everything —63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkvQcbGAs95
I survived, I coded, I lived.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxXhMe47gsP
And maybe even bloomed a little.
The second year wasn’t knocking.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIT1VRtsPNL
It was already breaking in.
A whole new chapter —63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwCxx5QG7Q
new faces, maybe some old ones too.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrl9RfZf6q
But more than anything,63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZaSGUk70v
new choices.
And I...63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8Unln2Htu
was still carrying the echoes of a name I carved softly into my soul.63Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8lUQbXximg
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