Grapevine quietly shows the pain everyone hides

I installed Grapevine thinking it was just another app. But what I found was something else.

Every post feels like a quiet cry for help. People are breaking down inside their corporate lives. Some are smiling on video calls and crying right after. Some are struggling with depression, others with loneliness. Some are signing divorce papers while pretending everything is normal. Some are begging for love. Some are drowning in it.

Everyone looks fine on the outside, but inside… they’re tired. Tired of pretending. Tired of holding it all together. Tired of acting like they’re strong all the time.

It made me realise—this is what adulthood really is. Not the big job or the good salary. It’s learning how to carry pain quietly. How to smile when you’re breaking. How to show up even when you don’t feel like living.

Why do we call this “success”? Why does growing up feel like slowly fading away?

This app didn’t just show me posts. It showed me the side of people that no one sees. The side that says, “I’m not okay. I just don’t know how to say it.”

And now I can’t stop thinking about it.