Kevin and Blake first met at summer camp when they were 13 years old. Even at a young age, Kevin thought Blake was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. Although they stayed in touch through instant messaging and phone calls in the following years, they eventually lost contact due to the distance between Indianapolis and Michigan.
One year after they stopped talking, when Kevin and Blake were both 17 years old, a fateful phone call changed their lives forever. Kevin was seconds away from taking his own life, having already written a suicide note, when his phone vibrated in his pocket. It was Blake calling him out of the blue.
During their conversation, Kevin confessed to Blake that he had been planning to commit suicide. Shocked and concerned, Blake talked him down and made him promise to call her the next day. Over the following months, the two became even closer friends until they fell in love and started dating.
Ten years after that pivotal phone call, in 2015, Kevin proposed to Blake. During his proposal, he reportedly told her, “I love you. Also, thanks for saving my life.”
This story does cause some unexplainable, yet familiar vibrations in my consciousness. And I really hope it will make us all see the need to regularly check up on people. That phone call, that SMS! may be all that’s needed to save an unspeakable situation. T.A.L.K to someone today.