The illusion of fear

Fear is an illusion that serves to protect and preserve. The will to overcome fear may take a great measure but nonetheless never impossible. Just like any other state of mind, a plataeu and instantaneous decline is reached once one is able to accept and take an active risk, be it a success or futile effort. To continue to exist is to continue to fear and overcome fear, a cycle that repeats and evolves. It evolves in a sense that what one has overcome before would never generate the same intensity of fear if perchance the same entity or situation is again encountered. One can never genuinely fear the same thing again and again to the same or greater degree once overcame. However, it is possible for fear to grow if risk is not taken and if denied or ignored relative to time. Why is fear then an illusion? It is an illusion in the basic sense of being a state of 'mind'. It is not something tangible but rather a conception of consciousness, which of course is unique to every individual. Two or more individuals may fear a similar thing in general, but never to the exact parameters. Why do we fear? Obviously, it is a basic instinct for the ultimate goal of survival. Not all fears are born from instinct, some are acquired through experience. Is there then such a thing as genuine fear? It may be conceived that there is but a proof can never be warranted to the limits of counsiousness. Genuine fear is the ultimate end of all fears, and such is death.