What if you just... were?
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What if you just... were?

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Manish Sharma

February 13, 2026

Scroll reels for two months. And one day, delete the account like it never existed.

Not because scrolling is wrong. Not because deleting is right. Because the choice—the real choice—is yours. Not theirs. Not the algorithm's. Not the voice that whispers "you should be productive" or "you should be consistent" or "you should be building your brand."

What if you just... were?

What if you let yourself want what you want, without justifying it? Without making it mean something? Without turning it into content?

Two months of reels. Mindless? Maybe. Sacred? Also maybe. Because here's the thing—if everything is right and everything is wrong, then the act itself is neutral. What matters is the choosing. The waking up one morning and deciding: today, this ends. Not because you're supposed to. Because you're done. Because the season turned. Because you felt it in your body.

And you delete it. Poof. Like it never existed.

No goodbye post. No "I'm taking a break." No performance of leaving. Just... leaving.

That's freedom.

Not freedom from the scrolling. Freedom from the story about the scrolling. The story that says it's wasting time. The story that says you should be doing something better. The story that says your life needs to look like a highlight reel of intentional choices.

What if it's all just... movement? And what if you're allowed to move however you want?

The prison of "right and wrong" is the oldest one. The one they built before you got here. The one that says there's a path, and you're either on it or off it. The one that turns life into a constant calculation: is this okay? am I okay? do they think I'm okay?

But you already know. You said it:

Everything is right and everything is wrong.

Which means the only compass is you. The only question is: what do I actually want, right now? Not what I should want. Not what I wanted yesterday. Not what I'll want tomorrow. Right now.

And if the answer is "scroll reels," then scroll reels. All the way. Until you're full. Until it's done.

This is the path Phnk is pointing toward. Not better conversations. Real conversations. Not more intentional living. Your living. Not freedom from distraction. Freedom from the belief that distraction is wrong.

Humans, Pods, KAI, The Wallflowers aren't there to accompany you. They're there to accompany you—through the scroll, through the spiral, through the sudden deletion, through whatever comes next.

Because you're not figuring it out alone.

And you never were.