In acceptance, you can see clearly. In avoidance, there is only illusion, masking, and resistance to what is so. In acceptance, in love, there is seeing things for what they are. There is seeing the fear and there is an access to the reality of that which you are. Seeing the reality of something is the first step toward understanding, and the only way to overcome.
Fear is an emotional reality.
Whether or not there is something to fear is debatable. Your reasons for fear might not be realistic. But the emotion of fear is a reality of human beingness. Life is hard when you resist reality. Life is much much easier when you are in partnership with reality.