TUYO, TINAPA AND GALUNGGONG

TUYO, TINAPA AND GALUNGGONG

Let me tell you a story. Three construction workers were on top of their
half-finished skyscraper. Rrrrring!" the lunch bell sounded, and the three
men sat on a steel beam jutting out of the 56th floor with their lunch boxes
in hand.

The first guy opens his and groans in exasperation, "Tuyo!" There is not a
day that I don't get tuyo for lunch!" He turns to his buddies and announces,
"Mark my words. If I still get tuyo tomorrow, I'm going to throw myself from
this building."

The second guy opens his lunch box and moans, "Tinapa". Everyday, I get
tinapa!" He looks at his friends and declares, "Believe me when I say this.
If I get tinapa tomorrow, I'm going to jump and kil! l myself."

The third guy opens his lunch box and it was his turn to despair.
"Galunggong" . All I get is galunggong!" I'm telling you, if I still get
galunggong tomorrow, I'm going to jump from this building and die."

The next day, the lunch bell rings and all three men are again seated on the
56th floor. The first guy opens his lunch box and starts crying,
"Tuyoooooo!" And so he jumps and crashes on the ground.

The second guy opens his lunch box and wails loudly, "Tinapaaaa!" And he
also hurls himself off the building and dies.

The third guy opens his lunch box and screams, "Galunggonggggg! " And so he
too jumps off the building and splatters on the ground.

Days later, during the funeral of the three men, their three wives embrace
and weep together. The first wife cries out, "I didn't know my husband
didn't like tuyo anymore! Why didn't he tell me? If only he told me, I would
have prepared something else."

The second wife echoes her statement, "Yes! If only I knew, I would have
cooked something else, not tinapa!"

The third wife, between sobs, speaks up, "I don't know why my husband killed
himself." The two wives look at her curiously.
"Why?"
She went on, "Because ... my husband prepares his own lunch everyday..."

I love this crazy story because it presents a very important truth: all of
us prepare our own lunch. If we don't like our jobs, if we don't like the
state of our relationships, if! we don't like what's happening to our
spiritual lives - we have no one to blame but ourselves. Because God has
given us free will. He has given us the power to prepare our own lunch.

If you want to earn more and be free from debt, if you're sick and tired of
your bad habits, if we want to put more joy in our marriages, if we want to
grow in our relationship with God - then go back to your kitchen and prepare
yourself another dish. Because you design your own future. You create your
own destiny. Ask yourself what kind of future do you want to have? What kind
of life? What kind of eternity? You decide.