Mein Traum

My company (IBM) has an internal magazine (The IBMer) that comes every six months. I got this article published in the last edition about my project “A Postcard for World Peace”. Here the initial English version of the article... Did you send your postcard already?


My Dream – Mein Traum

We all have dreams. Some utopic, some realistic ones.

And so it happens that once, a night of January 2007, few weeks before leaving Estonia after almost 4 years living there and moving to Austria, I dreamed about a way to contribute to a major utopic dream that many have: World Peace.

That night in my flat in Tallinn I dreamed about the project. I remembering waking up in the middle of the night and thinking that it was a cool idea, so I went back to sleep and kept dreaming about the same for the rest of the night. So I woke up in the morning and decided to put that dream into action and the first couple of hours at work that day were dedicated to it. And that’s how I started my project: A Postcard for World Peace.

A Postcard for World Peace is a collection of postcards from all over the World; in which people from all around the Globe share their thoughts and wishes to peace and fulfilment to the human kind.

So far there are more than 1000 postcard from over 160 countries and territories, from Greenland to Antarctica, from Fiji to Ghana and Guatemala. People from all the continents expressing their wishes for peace.

And that’s the beauty of the project: to show that no matter how different we are, which language we speak, which religion we profess, we all have an ultimate dream of having a World in which we can leave in Peace and Unity.

I know that with this project most probably World peace wont be achieved, but at least, I want to believe that it makes a difference for that person who took the time and the effort to get a postcard, think about what peace means for him/herself, go to the post office, get a stamp and send the card. And for those who read the messages online and feel inspired by it. At the end of the day, peace is more than the absence of war, but also that inner state of mind, in which we are at easy with ourselves.

All the postcards are displayed online in the project site: http://postcardworldpeace.blogspot.com and the idea is soon to have exhibitions made and get a book published with the nicest postcards and messages. When you go to the link you can find all the postcards and the list of all the countries participating in the project.

So I would like to invite you all that if you are going on a trip, business or private, or even from your home place here in Austria, to contribute and send a postcard for World peace to:

A Postcard for World Peace
Gumpendorferstrasse 8/9a
Wien 1060

Peace to all of you!