Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! — incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
Imagine human being completely devoid of emotions, a stoic's dream you might say. Can we really label such a person as fearless? I doubt it, because only existence of emotion shows any kind of struggle which emotionless people can't savor.
Fear is the primal emotion, part of our true and instinctive nature. Father fear was following humankind in its footsteps from the very beginning, because there are simply times when there is no space for difficult computations of brain and we have to jump to conclusions. Our survival depended on it. And even though we should honor him for doing so, it is time for our growing up from education of the father Fear. We should realize that he was great mentor, yet we have already tasted dangers of the world and appreciated the risks and strings attached. The Fear gave us discipline, but we should not allow to be terrorized by him forever. Without the dauntlessness of our souls will humans never leave the puddle of mediocrity.
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