Abdul

There was Abdul. There was a a play in which he enacted. He played the part of a milkman who distributed milk and milk products in a town. The play became popular so did his role. All his life, he did more than 100 successful shows of the same play, playing the same role. The audience changed, auditorium changed. Even some actors of the play changed but he did not. And one more thing remained. A milk can with him. The first one that he had used as a prop in his very 1st show was his lucky charm and it accompanied him in every show. People remembered him as the milkman with the CAN. Once, Abdul told his colleagues. The day when this can breaks I feel, I would not be a part of the show anymore. And the day came. All of a sudden, the can broke. Abdul became crestfallen. He felt as if someone had taken away his life! He could not continue acting any more. Just stayed in the four walls of home. Felt utterly depressed. " I wouldn't live. I feel my end is near" said he. His friends tried every possible way to divert his mind but in vain. Day by day, Abdul lost his vigor, his health. He was anyways growing old and each day, his depression increased the senile emaciation of his face that made him look all the more old. His family took aid of a psychiatrist. The doctor prescribed medication but nothing really worked. Then one day the doctor said, " If only something can get that CAN out of his head, will he live or else, he might not be able to continue much I'm afraid".
Abdul's wife kept brooding over the matter the whole night. The next morning, she woke him up and said, " Where is my milk? Why haven't you brought it. Where is it? I am asking you?" . Abdul looked baffled. What was wrong with his wife! He wondered. " Go! Right now." She said loudly. " Today also you are late! As each day! Seems you do not want your monthly payment on time. Each morning you come late to deliver the milk!"
Abdul did not utter a word. He quickly went out of his house and rushed to meet a Maulvi. " Maulvi sahab. My wife has got possessed. She's behaving in a manner I fail to understand. Please come home to cure her." Maulvi sahab came. He said, " ghost has entered the body of your wife. Some ghost who knows you very well as a milkman! And is now demanding the delivery of milk from you. " Abdul got bewildered. " But I am NOT a MILKMAN! I have never been one. My profession is ACTING.!" Maulana said, " I don't know all that but now, this is the truth. The ghost is very powerful. Will NOT leave. " Abdul's wife started screaming - indomitable. " Go and bring me milk. Today's morning delivery is pending!". Abdul rushed to his friend who happened to be an actor himself. Listening to his plight, his friend suggested him to visit a psychiatrist in case it could be a case of psychological disorder. Abdul consulted the doctor who, after examining the patient told him, " There's obsession very prominently visible in her to get her demand fulfilled. It could be an outcome of her old age which engenders such behavioural oddities. In this case, nothing much is possible. "
The next morning Abdul woke up. He saw his wife quietly sitting in one corner of his home. She was looking at him. He could make out some implicit indication on her disturbed visage. He kept looking at her. After a while, he remarked, " did you prepare my food. I need to leave for the day. And she didn't say a word. He urged, " I need to leave for work. Give me the CAN, I am to begin for the delivery of milk. "
She got up. Brought a milk can and quietly handed it over to him. He remarked, " Not this one! My CAN. The one I take regularly. With a somber look on her face she said, " it broke yesterday."
" yesterday! Did it break yesterday?" he asked again. She said, " Yes. Yesterday evening. While I was working in the kitchen yesterday evening, I took it to clean it but it slipped from my hand and broke."
Abdul looked at her. He could understand." Oh! Is it? Ok. Give me another can. I have to go for work. "
He reached theater. Before they could ask him anything he said, " So, the milkman is ready with his NEW CAN for another Show. THE OLD ONE BROKE YESTERDAY NIGHT. They looked at him. Nonplussed. "well....what are all of you thinking. Let's begin..The show IS ALWAYS GOING ON! "

The MILK CAN.