1:22:11 – 1:23:37

My name is Rahul and I am a classmate in 8th grade with Caleb and I was one of his friends. When I first heard of Caleb’s passing, I can feel the sadness in the atmosphere, but I felt mostly shocked. I was really shocked. I was so shocked that I stopped thinking straight. I thought things like “I wish I had not taken our relationship for granted” or “How am I going to live life without this guy who I’ve literally looked up to since I met him?”

I thought of how we talked through email since we couldn’t text at the time. He would always ask, “Can I come to your house today?” and “Are you available today?” He would always make me do this ritual where he would ask me to ask my mom to ask his mom for him to come over. And I would always ask, “What’s the point of this?” and he would always say, “I don’t really know.” And as silly as it sounds, looking back, it taught me to have faith in life in general.

Things are going to get better and people need to know that today. Caleb, whether in big or humungous ways, has changed everyone’s life for the better.