LEARN TO LET GO

(Lesson from the death of James A. Garfield) James A. Garfield, the 28th American President was shot by Charles J. Guitean in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 2, 1881, less than four months after he took office. The two bullets entered his right side and his back, but he was rescued and his life was saved through medical intervention.

But to the surprise of the doctors and surgeons that carried out the surgery on him, the bullets that went through his back was not found and all effort to trace it proved abortive. After the operation, the man was doing very fine and Doctors advised that it better to forget about the missing bullet, since it couldn't be found. But the president insisted that they should continue to look for the bullet in his body.

Several medical examinations and further surgeries were carried out on him, yet the missing bullet was no where to be found. Still he was not comfortable despite doctors advice to let it be. As a result of this, an American scientist and the inventor of telephone; Alexander Graham Bell was consulted to develope an electronic device to look through his body in order to locate the missing bullet.

Bell determined that a properly configured induction balance would emit a tone when a metal object was brought into proximity with it. At the end of July, he began searching for Garfield’s bullet, but no bullet was found in his body. President Garfield died 11 weeks later, on September 19, 1881, at 10:35 p.m.

Autopsy result showed that President Garfield died of complications caused by infections, not from the gun shot wound or the missing bullet, but from chemical and electronic reactions of those devices used while they were trying to locate the missing bullet in his body.

*LESSON*
President Garfield wouldn't have died early if he had conceded to doctors advice to let the missing bullet be, since it's been proved that such a metal can stay in human body for 100years without any complication.

*NOTE*
Sometimes, it's better to leave things alone. Don't try to find solution to every problem by force or by all means. Many things we go through in life are mysteries that no matter how much we try, we can never unravel them.

Do you have a missing bullet in your body and all effort to trace it has not been successful? Let it be and move on with your life. It's good to make effort in trying to solve our problems, but it's better not to go too far, and it's also important to know when to LET GO.

I WISH YOU A BEAUTIFUL DAY!
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