You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.
In the Soyuz, the little Russian capsule, you can actually hear the banging of the big shield, the big heat shield on the bottom, as it slowly erodes away from the heat and pieces of it fly off like sparks across your window, and it's an interesting thing to ride through, you know.