At the end of the semester,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLWBoMpyqR
when the books were closed,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJYqw0nodK
and the codes had settled into the silence of completion,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6maFBeQ7n
we were handed something new —84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6BvNsOYkF
a task beyond classrooms and labs.
They called it the CSP —84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIuIhcE0Nue
Community Service Project.
It was meant to connect us with the world outside —84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgXovF1jzw
to give back, maybe.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODhyvqiHHR
But for me, it felt more like a pause,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQT9RehYWB
a breath before the next rush.
I didn’t choose my team.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD8PDm1ic8W
Or maybe, the team chose me.
It was me,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6pysLzgiI
Merry and Bettie — two girls from my class84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqP8DLH43B
who shared more smiles than words with me,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGuOJv6g1k
and Harry, my friend —84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoudYlDg0xJ
more chaos than calm, but a comfort all the same.
We were a team.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCCYm6WOPu
Somewhat random, but real.
Our project was rooted in Rajahmundry.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpK7xlXXxX
A place far from our usual walls,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YiJjJ5zEl
where we were to explore farming,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mK8pc6nbg
to understand flowers, roots, and the earth itself.
It was poetic, in a way.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLooOkq1y5p
After all, hadn’t this year been about blooming too?
But there she was again.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqdE8vI3UI
Forevermore.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8U7GMr76p
And she had her own project, her own path.
With Ren, of course.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8aGHfpAUN
And that girl I met during the festival.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9PyIwPI2j
A few others I didn’t know, but it didn’t matter.
They were a team.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVqLT4b9DX
Separate.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ir1XkABEO
Like two parallel poems written in the same language,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvb8yeaeEUx
but never on the same page.
We left the city on the same day,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxb9cV6Yn2
as if chasing the same sunrise from two different windows.
She took the bus.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPX64xVvXPy
I rode a bike.
Same roads, different rhythms.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkL7xyrRRg
That was how it had always been, wasn’t it?
May ended in sweat and soil,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKBxoTAdUf
laughter echoing in quiet villages,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjwsmodcB7
us pretending to be farmers, observers, volunteers.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hxcVoNM9E
Somewhere in between the heat and haze,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSuBxFkTQn
we completed what was asked of us.
But more than the project,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Hy589nuLp
it was the people.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXnRTcsHx1K
The little moments.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfHRzYmKd8G
The jokes, the long walks back from fields.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAT8vRb24Tb
Not everything has to be profound.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRyjbpzK5cy
Sometimes, simplicity leaves the deepest roots.
And then,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7XxpB5SQu5
came the results.
By late July,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdkm5SQkVOm
we were handed the truth of our first year.
CGPA: 8.88
Better than I expected.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxf2hjxQgUs
Worse than I pretended I didn’t care.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3SOVGDrP5
It was a number, yes.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0YopT9QNG
But also a weight lifted.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvL4uNqVbqM
A reminder that despite everything —84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsYX3OV6oj
I survived, I coded, I lived.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYaT4RHIrXq
And maybe even bloomed a little.
The second year wasn’t knocking.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPerC2aGnq9
It was already breaking in.
A whole new chapter —84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPGegiiZxA
new faces, maybe some old ones too.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rUAmAnU2Y
But more than anything,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTGkOFO5vq
new choices.
And I...84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRyoYKMZFo
was still carrying the echoes of a name I carved softly into my soul.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fOI3cxfcl
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