I think of fear as a direction to grow and empower yourself, that way you accept that you'll always feel it and you can break the habit of running from the feel

I think of fear as a direction to grow and empower yourself, that way you accept that you'll always feel it and you can break the habit of running from the feeling. There's an author that wrote, facing your fear is a lot worse than living with the underlying feeling of helplessness that comes from doing things to avoid it. Of course it's not that simple and more context dependant, somethings like fear of a predator or fear of starving are valid and should be addressed. I suppose if you're a zookeeper or fasting than those are ok too.. But I think of you can reconcile what you're fearing rationally then all that's left is the emotion and you just have to go towards it. All that being said... damn it's the best and worst emotion by far. Really I just commented so that I'll see what HN has to say for it