An Easy Chesed

A Rosh Yeshiva was sitting having a meeting with some talmidei chachamim when a bochur stuck his head round the door.
'Rebbe, Rebbe - Chaim is engaged!' he exclaimed happily.
'Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov! That's such wonderful news! Thank you so much for telling me!' the Rosh Yeshiva enthusiastically replied.

A few minutes later, another bachur stuck his head around and said,
'Rebbe, Rebbe, did you hear? Chaim is a chatan!'
'Oh that's wonderful! Mazal Tov! Thank you so much for that happy news!' the Rosh Yeshiva again was enthusiastic with his reply.

A few minutes later, the scenario repeated itself, with the Rosh Yeshiva showing no knowledge of having already heard the news.

One of the talmidei chachamim turned to the Rosh Yeshiva and asked him why he didn't tell the bochurim that he had heard the news already.

'What? And spoil his happiness that he was able to tell me the good news?'

This is such an easy but so important chesed that we can do for eachother. How many times have you been eager to share knowledge of asimcha, or simply something you found out recently, only to hear 'I know', or 'I heard already'. Remember how deflated you felt?

We can all do a big chesed to our friends, just by showing the same enthusiasm to something we may already know, to share in our friends' excitement and simcha.