“Sometimes people are beautiful, not in looks, not in what they say, just in what they are’’ Markus Zusak. Growing up as a girl of nine (9), I came across the word, ‘inner beauty’ for the very first time. That word really got me thinking and even worried. I knew what beauty meant. To me then, beauty meant being tall, slim, light skinned, bright eyes, small and pink lips… but I pondered on the word, ‘inner beauty’. I wondered, “How can a person be beautiful inside? Does it mean the lungs, intestines, kidney and other internal organs are clean, free from impurities and just beautiful?” I took my confusion to my mother and she said, “Inner beauty is true beauty. It springs from within and radiates for all to see. It means a heart that’s pure, humble and wishes the good of others” That was my mother’s definition of inner beauty. Mum said you could have all the physical qualities that pass the test of beauty but that is physical beauty and that won’t take you far in life. Inner ...
Amarachi Udochi-Nwachukwu (Nee NWANKWO) is a creative writer, author of a collection of poems titled, 'The BaobabTree and Other Poems' a Development Communication Specialist and the Founder of WeHelp Initiative, an Initiative that provides welfare materials and learning facilities for vulnerable and orphaned children. Her hobbies are reading, writing, travelling and cooking.