You Are the Story You Repeat

Essays for the Indian soul. Stories that remind us who we are beneath the noise.

I. The Script You Don’t Know You’re Reciting

Every morning, before the birds cry or chai simmers, a silent script begins to run:

“I’m falling behind.”
“I should be doing more.”
“Everyone else has it figured out.”

These aren’t just thoughts. They’re narratives—and most days, we walk straight into them like dutiful actors in a play we never auditioned for.

We don’t live our lives.
We repeat them.

II. The Ancient Loop

In Vedanta, there’s a word: samskara.

It means mental impressions — grooves of thought carved deep by repetition, experience, or trauma. They’re not just memories. They’re habits of identity.
Like water tracing the same cracks in a stone, our attention flows along the lines of what we’ve told ourselves for years.

“I’m the quiet one.”
“I’m not made for money.”
“They always leave.”

None of these may be true. But if repeated long enough, they become the world we walk through.

III. The Mirror of Presence

What breaks the pattern?
Not force. Not motivation. Not even therapy alone.

What shifts the story…
is presence.

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Stillness becomes the editing room.
Silence, the red ink of the soul.
When we pause long enough, we begin to hear which lines are ours… and which were inherited.

Presence doesn’t shout.
It listens.
And what it hears first is the noise we mistake for truth.

IV. Rewriting the Myth

You’re not the story your mind repeats.
You’re the one who notices it.

Which means: you’re the author. Not the echo.

Begin gently:

  • Name the old line.
    Write it down without judgment. “I’m always behind.”
  • Ask its origin.
    Who gave you this line? Is it still serving you?
  • Write a new sentence.
    Not to affirm. To begin again. “I move at the rhythm of my truth.”

This isn’t self-help. It’s self-remembrance.

Every identity is a draft. Every belief a brushstroke.
You’re allowed to rewrite.

V. A Practice

For the next 7 days, do this:

  1. Before noon, notice the dominant thought in your mind.
  2. Ask: “Is this a story? Or a truth?”
  3. If it’s a story, ask: “Who would I be without it?”
  4. Then write a new line — not to impress, but to begin again.

The goal is not to “win” the day.
It’s to remind you that you are not the day.
You are the one writing it.

VI. You Are the Pattern

You are not your past.
You are your pattern.

And patterns, like roads and rivers, can change direction.
They begin with a turn — not outside, but inward.

Let this be the season you return to authorship.
Let this be the sentence you start anew.

You are not the story they gave you.
You are the one who can begin a new page.

Aniruddha Singh
Creator, ansiandyou™ | aniruddhasingh.com

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