I found Fatmata Barrie's article "Overcoming Sickle-Cell" extremely powerful and motivating. This is because despite all the time that she spent in the hospital in pain she never gave up. The situation she was in sounds so depressing, it were to feel like the only choice she would have left is to give up but that never happened. No matter how many difficult obstacles she encountered she kept going. Her story inspires me because she was courageous enough to overcome it, which would mean that so can we. Whenever we face hardships, we need to believe in ourselves that we will get through it just like she did. Thank you so much Fatmata Barrie for sharing your story i dearly appreciate it.