At the end of the semester,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTbWtsCMee
when the books were closed,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBwc3haftoK
and the codes had settled into the silence of completion,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxvrHHN742f
we were handed something new —164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJ1Cob56xW
a task beyond classrooms and labs.
They called it the CSP —164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwkMj9mLxy
Community Service Project.
It was meant to connect us with the world outside —164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzvfZZDAIjG
to give back, maybe.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR6886KMOA6
But for me, it felt more like a pause,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzNui0jk3X
a breath before the next rush.
I didn’t choose my team.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1x1D5FjhJz
Or maybe, the team chose me.
It was me,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKSIIIBjLT
Merry and Bettie — two girls from my class164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kA4SwRy9T
who shared more smiles than words with me,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrGAWjQ1Ht
and Harry, my friend —164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0mg1HJ8tj
more chaos than calm, but a comfort all the same.
We were a team.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoLlWwxyMt
Somewhat random, but real.
Our project was rooted in Rajahmundry.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmCXLhuHtG
A place far from our usual walls,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWMsGeqHU2
where we were to explore farming,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1EDxJfFoS
to understand flowers, roots, and the earth itself.
It was poetic, in a way.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJejtFDfzOE
After all, hadn’t this year been about blooming too?
But there she was again.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxC48lbvWcq
Forevermore.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGXcyMHWKJ
And she had her own project, her own path.
With Ren, of course.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPX0ETGwzf9
And that girl I met during the festival.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXy4gpDAyzX
A few others I didn’t know, but it didn’t matter.
They were a team.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOm8UW77p0w
Separate.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV1HTsSpZAt
Like two parallel poems written in the same language,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXY8NA1irjV
but never on the same page.
We left the city on the same day,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1CNmrR6pj
as if chasing the same sunrise from two different windows.
She took the bus.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNw8fL5FDXI
I rode a bike.
Same roads, different rhythms.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnYSiecj3o
That was how it had always been, wasn’t it?
May ended in sweat and soil,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAvkvUGnQQ
laughter echoing in quiet villages,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwUq1CJHlL
us pretending to be farmers, observers, volunteers.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCWPIeVoVh
Somewhere in between the heat and haze,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWbl0oaWCQ
we completed what was asked of us.
But more than the project,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡATmvr6y4y9
it was the people.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9owS0M05wU
The little moments.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6QibESd4c
The jokes, the long walks back from fields.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGU4rFFgNw
Not everything has to be profound.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6fTaosLB81
Sometimes, simplicity leaves the deepest roots.
And then,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofQsDFIdii
came the results.
By late July,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUi1bL9ix4i
we were handed the truth of our first year.
CGPA: 8.88
Better than I expected.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7LnTx5xkd
Worse than I pretended I didn’t care.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8EoWfT5XKV
It was a number, yes.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3w4y4O5FNJ
But also a weight lifted.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGezl1Qro1E
A reminder that despite everything —164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbPd1JrffV
I survived, I coded, I lived.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6X19XS6Re0
And maybe even bloomed a little.
The second year wasn’t knocking.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhsjT3ylWv
It was already breaking in.
A whole new chapter —164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLrfjadZu4
new faces, maybe some old ones too.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHijghdHpS
But more than anything,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5R2GwWW3zE
new choices.
And I...164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWfYykMpIl
was still carrying the echoes of a name I carved softly into my soul.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5AS8ZPHmy
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