Talk:RWBY/Episodes/@comment-149.172.160.137-20150321193531/@comment-3387274-20150416071150

Blake has no idea what she needs to do to get what she wants in the long run, and is subsequently simply doing what seems best in the hope that it may work. Since it invariably doesen't, the times when she stops and runs away are much more memorable to her, and she doesen't have any big successes in her personal battle to re-bolster her self esteem afterward. The issue isn't so much that she really runs away from everything so much as believes she does.