The little white stickers are hard to see. Yet upon closer examination, they are everywhere: tucked behind a printer in Blair, underneath a shelf in Firestone, on a telephone pole in front of the U-Store and even on a window on the Dinky. “Color your existence,” one says. “You are beautiful,” another reads.
The phrases, written on U.S. Postal Service priority mail labels, are the brainchild of an anonymous person who goes by the name Priority Mail, or PM.
PM explained in an e-mail that he or she chose to remain anonymous because the messages themselves are far more important than their source.
“The project aims to both inspire and evoke reflection,” PM said, adding that an equally important goal is to make someone smile.
Students said the project has so far been successful in achieving this goal.
“Every time I go to the Blair printer and I’m really stressed I always feel a little bit better by looking at the sticker that says, ‘You’re going to be okay.’ It’s quite heartening,” Sofia Orlando ’14 said.
Inspirational Post-it note projects are not a new idea. Projects such as Operation Beautiful have gained thousands of followers and resulted in series of books.
However, PM said, he or she has modified the idea. Though prior Post-it note campaigns influenced the project’s conception, the final initiative is also the result of many other avenues of inspiration, according to PM.
In an effort to preserve anonymity, PM did not reveal what these other sources of inspiration were .
The location of each sticker is chronicled on a Tumblr page to catalog the project for its followers. The stickers themselves, according to the project description on PM’s Tumblr, “are meant to be unexpected injections into our common lives.”
“When you accidentally find one, it’s really nice,” Temple Douglas ’14 said.
It is this type of spontaneity that PM hopes will make people notice, stop and think.
Though PM said the University community is close to PM’s heart, he or she expressed no reason not to expand in the future. “Labels are portable,” PM said.
A recent blog post announced the creation of stickers advertising Priority Mail and advised interested students to e-mail their Frist Campus Center mailbox numbers to the project if interested.
PM also occasionally shares images that he or she feels embody the spirit of the project.
“I originally hadn’t planned to post anything on this blog other than photos of pieces of the project. However as more people see the stickers and visit the site, I feel inspired to expand just a little,” PM explained.
PM also did not rule out the possibility of diversifying into media other than stickers. In a response fit for a label, PM wrote, “Keep your eyes open; you never know what you’ll see next.”
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