Fear is an obstacle to achieving your personal legend, keeping one from being truly happy
The fear of fear is something people face in everyday life. Fear is something that can stop you from acheiving your personal legend. That does also lead into the other theme of pursueing your personal legend is the only way to be truly happy. So fear is ONE of the obstacles from achieving your personal legend. The feeling of what you fear, is worse than what you actually fear. For an example, this is stated in the book "." This shows that people have "over fear" of their fears. This basically means that feeling the fear is worse than the fear actually happening. If you can concur your fear, you can achieve your personal legend. Everyone has some kind(s) of fear. Some people say they have no fear. This either means that they are lying and too embarassed to admit that they have a fear, or that they do not yet know what they fear. Fear is something that haunts us all, it haunts Satiago in the book The Alchemist through his journey to achieve his personal legend.