My BIG FAT.........

MY big Fat .....Nose!

Blaise Pascal, the great philosopher once remarked that “Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed." Much closer to our times and home, we all know Sreedevi became perfect only after her nose job. Well, not that I am a Cleopatra or even a Sreedevi but Oh Yes, I do have one thing in common with them and that’s my NOSE, a real sore point with me.

I do have a bone of contention to pick up with my creator if and when I meet him. This is how I imagine the scene of our creation….The lord (Brahma?) creates us from some plasticine like dough and he has a little allotted for each of us. The amount that he gathers in both his hands has to be finished off in the model that he is sculpting. So, when he finished creating me he had a little ball of the sticky dough which, if you ask me, he could have simply thrown away but for reasons best known to him, he opted to put it on my nose instead.(between you and me I AM glad that he did not put it elsewhere LOL) Alas!!!!! And I landed up with a BIG FAT nose. It starts out fine but gets bigger at the tip instead of a sharp cute point.

On second thoughts why blame him? It is what I genetically inherited from my beloved father. Actually, there were so many things that I could have got from him, just on the top of my list being his patience and cool temper but NO, I had to go and get his nose. I was so conscious of it during my growing years that when people said I looked like my dad I was sure that they referred only to my nose and did not like it at all.

Now, what do men do if they have big noses? They grow nice bushy moustaches which hide their noses but what do we women do? Of course, we adorn it with a lovely nose ring. And as is obvious from our dear Sunkans post on pierced noses, which pops up to the front page of our snippets every now and then with unfailing regularity, this is quite a popular fashion accessory.

So, when I was 18, I decided all that my nose needed to look good was some decent company and hence went with my aunt to get it pierced. She went for a diamond and me for the lovely silver ones that all the gujju girls in my college wore. My mother did not give me the permission to pierce the left one as tamilians apparently wore it only on the right side.

"Are you sure you want to do it?" She had second thoughts whether I should wait until my wedding. "What if the boy or his family did not like my pierced nose? But no, I was having none of that, right side was okay but the boy who married me took me with my nose ring(and my nose, of course ) .Well, it was done and my friends liked me with my new fashion statement.

But I have always had a very peculiar problem .My sense of smell is incredible. Whether a fragrance or a stink, I always seem to get it first. If it is a good smell everyone is happy but when I start saying that something stinks they automatically blame it on my BIG nose. Now, isn't that totally unfair? But that’s how the world is, friends! People only want to believe compliments, they never have the guts to take the bad and improve themselves.

And I also catch a cold very easily. Now, can it be due to its size? I do not know but it does draw attention to my red nose, something I can do without.

I do not remember my hubby commenting at all on my nose or nose stud until my daughter was born." Thank God, she doesn’t have your nose" was one of his first comments. How dare he? My poor nose which by then had graduated to a higher status with a lovely diamond stud took his comment as a great insult.

Well, over the years I and my nose have braved it all! I have managed some compliments too, despite it. Now after all these years I recently had the urge for a change. I see these lovely rings sported by many actresses on their noses. They are plain gold bands or studded with stones and look gorgeous on some ladies and I want to switch to one of those. I casually asked my friend for her opinion but she very seriously vetoed the idea. "Have you noticed, it is only the heroines who portray a vamp's role that go for those rings (and she did give me some examples, Jyothika in some movie that I don’t recall now) and THEY all have BIG noses. If you ask me, YOU better stick to your diamond that suits your face and nose."

I was incredulous at both…on the lovely trinket being stamped as an immoral woman's piece of jewellery and at her for declaring that my nose was not BIG enough for it. At last!!!! And when I shared it with my hubby, he had this to say in all seriousness." Maybe, your face has expanded now with age and so the nose doesn't dominate it, after all?"

What do I say to that now? Just made me wonder where all those men were who wrote realms of poetry on their wife's mesmerising eyes, beautiful smile or…….. BIG FAT Nose?

Have a happy and fun filled Diwali, my dear friends.:cheers:cheers

 

Hi iswarya,

Thanks !! Glad I could make you laugh..... at my Nose.

 

My dear viji,

It is only your affection for me that makes you write all those lovely things about me. Anyway, thanks for the same.I am touched.Now do not stare at my nose next time we meet,okay?


For you Brahma kept the dough on the nose. You know for me Brahma forgot that he had to keep mysmall finger in the leg last and kept the small finger as the fourth one and the fourth finger asthe last one.

oh really?????:rotfl:rotfl so the creator does not do a perfect job most of the times,no?

and you have a flat nose??? yeah... they come in different shapes and sizes.