horseshoe

About a month ago on the hippodrome I found a horseshoe. I'd say it is a midsize horseshoe. It is rusty and has a non-zero torsion (little deformed). I would say it is not wearable anymore. The superstition says that it is supposed to bring luck to the person who finds it and there are some instructions. Like you have to nail it legs up to the front entrance. Well, I thought I couldn't risk the expected luck in case the horseshoe gets stolen (there are people who might find my nailed horseshoe as their luck). So I decided to simply hang it on the door handle of my bedroom. From inside. Then my brother told me that it might lose its luck power. We argued about it and I decided to strengthen it by modifying it into a musical horseshoe. I tied few hanging nails to it and hung it by a thread so that when the wind blows, nails hit the horseshoe and make nice bell sounds. Theoretically. In practice, however, the construction is too heavy for the wind to move the horseshoe or nails (unless it is a hurricane). So to ring it, I poke it. From a single poke I get like two-three rings, not more. This is not the quality I am reaching for here. Horseshoe-improvement process, as we know, has no limits. So, right now I am looking at it and thinking of some kind of a wing attached to the horseshoe with relatively large area of attack that would be enough for even a weak wind blow to make it ring. At the same time the attached wing should not affect the acoustic properties of the horseshoe. This poses a little technical dilemma that I will be solving for the next two-three weeks, may be a month.

analysis of the horseshoe story

Ok, the fun part is over. Here goes the analysis of this (of course, true) story in terms of symbols and parables. The horseshoe can be seen as a gift (luck, chance, happy coincidence of events) that has a potential of bringing happiness (satisfaction, love, moment of truth). The superstition is a tradition of handling this gift in order to actualize it. My resistance to follow the tradition is my problem with authority. The fear of losing the horseshoe is rationale for avoiding the authority path. The idea of musical horseshoe is an attempt to substitute the traditional way of obtaining luck (nailing it to the entrance) by pleasant "bell-ring" way without any proof of improved luck attraction. Getting into the details (wings, acoustics) is not seeing the bigger picture.
Here is the parable.
I received a gift. People told me how to use it, but I did not listened and did it my way. My way feels better. I am satisfied.

The story lacks an idea, a conflict and the ending.

Daniel Keyes' idea, not mine

Keyes in his "Flowers for Algernon" said if you want to have friends you have to let people make fun of you. I wonder what that means. Negation of this statement is that if you do not want people to make fun of you, do not expect to have friends.