Surreptitiously hearing someone give someone else your own proffered advice.
Have you ever wished you could tell someone something without them knowing you told them, or find something out without that person knowing you know? I feel like this is a similar situation. It's one thing for someone to tell you something, whether it be praise or criticism or love or hate, the one thing I am certain of in life is that you never know what someone else is thinking. Never, no matter how good an idea you think you have, there's no way of knowing for sure. That's why when you overhear something you weren't necessarily supposed to, it has the ring of truth. Naturally, the speaker could be lying to the listener and there are lots of things at play here, like whether or not you were intentionally eavesdropping but let's just stick with the simple situation of truly (by which I mean, unintentionally) overhearing someone give someone else advice you had just previously suggested.
This way, you feel like there's proof that the speaker actually has faith in what you said, enough to relay it to someone else in distress. Hearing it being done, instead of hearing someone sya it had been done, is very gratifying and just enough to send you to bed with a slight perk-up of a smile.
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