The pressure to be perfect has stalked recent high school graduate Swarali Dhamal since she was in middle school, at once motivating and suffocating her while consuming more of her hours both in and outside of school.
Recently, that nagging voice telling her to be flawless has grown louder because of carefully curated posts by friends and influencers flooding her social media feed. Long before, the voice drove her to maintain impressive grades and keep up with peers in her classes as part of the inherent societal pressures that kept building.
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