“If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind. If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind.” – Arfa Karim
Computer prodigy and Microsoft’s youngest certified professional Arfa Karim passed away this weekend. She was 16 years old.
Karim had been in a coma since late December, when she suffered an epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest. Doctors were unable to save her after a tracheotomy complication on Saturday resulted in bleeding in her throat.
At the age of nine, she became the youngest-ever Microsoft Certified Professional, earning kudos from Bill Gates himself and an invitation to visit his company’s headquarters in America. According to CNET, Karim became interested in technology when her father bought her a computer to use for email. A year later, she was certified as a pilot by a flying club in Dubai.
In January, after Karim’s hospitalization, Gates reached out to her family and offered to pay for her medical care. Gates also floated the idea of moving Karim to the United States, but since she was on a ventilator her doctors decided against the move.
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