Is my nose getting longer?

01-29-12

Is my nose getting longer? 

As I am starting to lose weight my face is changing before my eyes (really) I was noticing that my nose is starting to look longer.  I know that my nose is not having a growing spurt, but my cheeks are getting smaller and that skin between my upper lip and nose is getting smaller as well, giving my nose the illusion of getting longer.

 I kind of like this new development, I have always had a little pug-ish nose that upturns on the end. For years I have wished for a more elongated more slender nose and now before my eyes I am getting just that.  Funny thing is, I didn’t appreciate what I had before, or notice that it had gotten worse as the pounds came on.  Only now that the pounds are coming off am I noticing that my nose is more like I had wished it was all along.  (However I still have fat nostrils but it could be worse.)

When I was a little girl I saw a ”made for TV movie” with Linda Purl in it (I don’t remember the name movie) as I was watching I became sort of fixated on the shape of her nose, the nostrils were so much more thin than mine. I wore a clothes pin on my nose for about a month trying to “reshape” my nose.   Just so you know, it only works for moments after you remove the cloths pin and do not have long lasting results.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we appreciated what we have when we have it, not when we are beyond having it again or on our way back to it?

A.  Dawn