At the end of the semester,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWor5ZtTcXI
when the books were closed,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOI3t4RATRK
and the codes had settled into the silence of completion,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyT0bPe5t6e
we were handed something new —154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqBwTWKxtl
a task beyond classrooms and labs.
They called it the CSP —154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIdJqwFLQt
Community Service Project.
It was meant to connect us with the world outside —154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rplgom6Gd
to give back, maybe.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPixm7rHHr
But for me, it felt more like a pause,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeoHp51xUpH
a breath before the next rush.
I didn’t choose my team.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4V7feRWQE
Or maybe, the team chose me.
It was me,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhGOb6YvNN
Merry and Bettie — two girls from my class154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP03Y6PDY00
who shared more smiles than words with me,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMO3bj8bHUi
and Harry, my friend —154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlynvWctsvo
more chaos than calm, but a comfort all the same.
We were a team.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTapyiHxdNp
Somewhat random, but real.
Our project was rooted in Rajahmundry.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gQojky3hU
A place far from our usual walls,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuNJMQAD7i8
where we were to explore farming,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNseWIxgFf0
to understand flowers, roots, and the earth itself.
It was poetic, in a way.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshFVEUb9zZ
After all, hadn’t this year been about blooming too?
But there she was again.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wKh7axna2
Forevermore.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCK7WnMLdn
And she had her own project, her own path.
With Ren, of course.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpeCqFnDH99
And that girl I met during the festival.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jQD4GmzIA
A few others I didn’t know, but it didn’t matter.
They were a team.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDFq2kxH0L
Separate.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTblM0BT6tp
Like two parallel poems written in the same language,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJeV11TOBt
but never on the same page.
We left the city on the same day,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxGVMTvtW8
as if chasing the same sunrise from two different windows.
She took the bus.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcDfJeMs9kf
I rode a bike.
Same roads, different rhythms.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHX9gI38pav
That was how it had always been, wasn’t it?
May ended in sweat and soil,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkGmFKPRTj
laughter echoing in quiet villages,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNqnAFGcPUc
us pretending to be farmers, observers, volunteers.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJ7KNprfZO
Somewhere in between the heat and haze,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkoepfhtbl
we completed what was asked of us.
But more than the project,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXYbRfsy1G
it was the people.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbpmoABP3o
The little moments.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcguElmZXv
The jokes, the long walks back from fields.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCIDuNr8G0
Not everything has to be profound.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa752MZCEE0
Sometimes, simplicity leaves the deepest roots.
And then,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkmxbKkoD3
came the results.
By late July,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWAo3WwOe1
we were handed the truth of our first year.
CGPA: 8.88
Better than I expected.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡve4N2s5ZCz
Worse than I pretended I didn’t care.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxm6KGYERvM
It was a number, yes.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvdE1KljkB
But also a weight lifted.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWsQy4QpDiQ
A reminder that despite everything —154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnbOMKa72hK
I survived, I coded, I lived.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANyPrOPA60
And maybe even bloomed a little.
The second year wasn’t knocking.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkJdTbnRU7
It was already breaking in.
A whole new chapter —154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UoVQuY2iW
new faces, maybe some old ones too.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTzJ9lHccd
But more than anything,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEU7bixEaqb
new choices.
And I...154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOK8ZkmXM1b
was still carrying the echoes of a name I carved softly into my soul.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaYS3J22s4O
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