“All through middle school I’d never really had a Valentine”, Hayden Godfrey, a senior at Sky View High School, explained.
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To do this, the Smithfield, Utah, high school student handed out 900 carnations to female students at his school on February 11. Every year after, the project grew bigger, until he eventually realized that he wanted to make “as many people as possible” happy. Hayden bought 900 carnations to pass out to more than 800 girls in his school.
“It was was totally worth it. I don’t think anything can compare to seeing every girl in your life holding a flower as they walk through the halls”, he posted Thursday.
Godfrey bought NINE HUNDRED flowers from a website out of his own money he earned working several part time jobs including bagging groceries and washing dishes.
“I’d seen a lot of heartbreak over the years, and I wanted to kind of devote myself to kindness each year”. His freshman year, he anonymously gifted flowers to 30 students, Fox 12 reports.
‘That broke his heart on Valentine’s Day.
“As we were leaving to go home, every single girl had her flower”, sophomore Rachael Williams described. School officials helped Godfrey with the plan, arranging for him to interrupt the last class of the day in order to pull off the feat.
A high school senior made a huge gesture for his classmates for Valentine’s Day.
Everyone could learn a lesson from Hayden about sharing love, with the “sensitive soul” – as Godfrey’s mother, Erin Godfrey, called Hayden – getting the idea from previous Valentine’s Day events.
He hasn’t decided what to do with the leftovers, he said.
“I think it’s something I’ll remember for the rest of my life”, he said.
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“I got a lot of ‘thank yous” that day.
