operation beautiful is something that i've known about for a long time. i stumbled upon the website on facebook my junior year of high school, and immediately fell in love with the idea.
when you open up the website, you're bombarded with photos and photos of post-it notes. the premise of the movement is that you write something encouraging on a post-it note, or something similar, and then leave the post-it note in a public place. it's another way to do a random act of kindness--one that i really enjoy.
i liked the idea so much that it became the inspiration for my gold award project.
i think that this idea--the idea of writing something positive and encouraging and posting it in a public place has taken off in ways that people don't even know. the original idea was to write something along the lines of "you are beautiful" but people have just expanded that to writing anything encouraging.
the counseling center at my college runs a similar campaign, where students are encouraged to write positive affirmations on little pieces of wood, which are then hung up around campus as kind of a suicide awareness campaign. i'm not sure whether or not it's been particularly successful, but seeing those notes around campus always manages to make me smile.
i wish that there was a way to track one person's post-it notes and the impact they had, because you can only assume what the notes you left do, and you can only say what notes you come across do. but i believe that these notes can only be a force for good in the world.
it's been a while since i've made any post-it notes of my own, but it's something i want to get back to. leaving them around public place always gave me a sense of joy. and i'd like to imagine that whoever finds my notes gets something from them.
i'd like to encourage you to make your own post-it notes if you'd like to. and if you've heard of operation beautiful or seen notes like this, leave a comment below!
-em xx
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