The way my youngest cousin inspire me was her activeness in attending sports. Hiking is consider a sport. Before we went for the real hiking for the charity, my cousin will call me out for training on every sunday morning. She will start to train me and give me some advice on how to start hiking or what to do after entering the jungle. After the few weeks of training I feel more and more active towards hiking in the jungle and won't feel lazy. I also will feel my activeness towards the upcoming hiking charity event.
The second thing was that my youngest cousin did to inspire me was that her bravery and her full of stamina. During the hiking journey, we have to be brave when encountering the wild life suroundings and also we need our full stamina to survive it. My youngest cousin is not only smaller size then me but also the fasters hiker in her family. But she is kind enough to wait the slowest hiker like me, I'm sooooo happyyyyyy :D Her bravery really inspire me to go on the trip and face all the natures and also train a lot to have the stamina that I really need for the trip.
Third was her strength that inspire me. As said she is a very small size girl, she is a very strong one that can climb all the way up and still have the time to run around. I was inspired to have those strength so I also train hard in the gym to have the same strength as her to climb all the way up to the top. While hiking, we also need the strength all the way up. It's not easy as you think.
During the days in Kota Kinabalu, the inspiration from my young cousin has gotten into me. When I was at the staring point that is from Mesilau starting point, I got nervous but later on when I think back how brave and calm my young cousin was, I did the same thing and try to keep myself calm. During the 6km journey to Laban Rata where we are suppose to stay and rest there, but after hiking till 3.5km my tank of strength is already empty and I starting to get very tired and have no energy left. Later on, my young cousin cheered me up and keep me going on and on till I can't no more. Even though I was super tired I did push myself to the top of Laban Rata thanks to my young cousin. I really can't do it without her. Her braveness is used when the bad weather hits us on the way to the top, it was raining heavily. The rocks and the soil was all soggy and slippery, the air was so cold that your uncover part of your body will turn numb. During that down pour, every inch of my body was shaking the wind was blowing super strong. While climbing the last 2km up to the hut, the rain water that touches the rocks make the whole journey up to the hut became more and more difficult. It seems I was climbing up a waterfall, I did slip a few times on the slippery rocks but after seeing my youngest cousin climb up without fear, I keep trying and trying even I slipped and almost fall I can't be afraid about falling down and give up I had to be brave and face the hard moments and I kept telling/remind myself be brave like my cousin and keep on going. When I believe I can then I really can do it. After the exhausted climb to the top of Laban Rata, we finally can rest and enjoy a cup of hot tea.
After we had rest for at least 6hours, we had to climb the Low's Peak Summit. Everyone is super tired but since we are here, we must push our self to finish this. We have to start hiking all the way up at 2.30am, everyone is tired, cold and muscle pain.
When we started hiking, the road to the peak is very dark even though you have a head lap with you. I was scared and tired, my youngest cousin told me that "after you have reach the top, all your hard work will finally pay off! and stop siting around!" And that is where I really got inspired by my youngest cousin's bravery and strong spirit. Once we reach to a certain level of the mountain where there's not much trees but mostly rocks, that means we are just starting to climb the mountain. It is very difficult to climb from that level because we have to use rope and our arm strength to pull us all the way up.
>>An amazing view from the mountain.
After all the struggling up the mountain, we have finally reached the Sayat-Sayat hut. There is where they record your names and proceed to the Low's Peak Summit. During the journey to the highest peak, we had to stick together because there's a huge mist and it's very hard to see the place where you need to place your foot and hands. We took approximately 5hours to reach the Low's Peak Summit!!! Once we reach there we felt very emotional and happy, it felt like "We are finally here as one family!" But we have to rush down because if we stayed there too long we will freeze. So we had to rush down as quick as possible. After a long walk back to the Laban Rata, we had to get down the mountain to catch our bus that leaves at 4pm. It's so rush for us to go back and we are super tired, our body can't take it no more.
Finally we were lucky to catch our last bus back to the hotel
, after all the hard work and struggling we have paid off by getting two colored certificate for the attempt of hiking all the way up to the Low's Peak Summit. All is worth it! The inspiration of my youngest cousin helped me to realize that with bravery, strength, stamina and activeness, I can accomplish the hardest thing in life.
All my youngest cousin inspirational that have been reflected on me was, if there is another charity event like this I would love to participate so that I can help myself to be stronger and also help others that is in need.
In a nut shell, it's not easy to accomplish such a difficult task but if you think you can do it, then YOU CAN DO IT! :D Fully motivated by my youngest cousin.
>> The picture that we have really accomplished this hiking charity together and took your certificate :D
"There are no limits in life!!"
