Peace Project - Love

My junior year of high school, our very last project we had to do was called the “Peace Project”. The basic idea was that we were to do something that, not necessarily promoted, but showed peace around the school, and maybe even the community.

Early in the year, we watched as a class this video where some people brought in strangers to do an experiment.  The experiment was to write down everything you love about someone in your life.  This could be one of your parents, your siblings, your friend, whoever.  Then, once you finished writing the note, you must call that person you wrote to and say exactly what you wrote down to them over the phone. 

The point of the video was to spread the love to one another.  When the people called who they wrote to and read them what they said, that not only made their day, but made both of those peoples’ day.  It brought joy out of both the caller and their loved one.  This definitely shows in the video, and it is infectious. 

So for my group’s “Peace Project”, we grabbed one person from each grade and had them do that same process. We also had a member of the school faculty do it as well.  It was one of my favorite things I did in high school, and the reactions from the people we had do the experiment were great.