In the book “Flat Out Celeste,” Celeste isolates herself from all the other students at her school. She has little interest in making friends because she assumes that doing so would be “setting herself up for failure” (28). In other words, she’s scared that making friends would only hurt her in the end because they might be disloyal or betray her. However, because she hasn’t reached out to anyone since she suspects they will only affect her in a bad way, she doesn’t know how they might change her life for the better. In life, hiding away is not the answer. Being challenged, risking being hurt for better things, is all about how you grow. Celeste is taking the easy way out by not reaching out to new people, and therefore she won’t experience
