Tausug Quotes

[P]aborito ko ang . . . masaalla (salawikain) ng mga Tausug: Gam muti' in bukug Ayaw in tikudtikud. “Mas mabuti pang pumuti ang butó kaysa pumuti ang sákong." Ang ibig sabihin, mainam pang mamatay (pumuti ang butó) kaysa maging duwag na tumakbo sa labanan (pumuti ang sákong).

The man was a father of three children, a poor Tausug farmer on Jolo Island, and suddenly, it all ended with a coconut falling out of a tree and splitting his head open. Think about the chances of that and how unlucky that action is…Both are moving objects, and they met at a single point to take his life.