Fear of Flying (album) Mýa recorded by the same name — not from Erica Jong's 1973 novel of the same name. During an interview with "Billboard", which discussed the name, Mýa noted that while she had not been aware of the book, she later "started reading it and noticed a lot of similarities: ""Fear of Flying" is a metaphor for the ups and downs of life. It's about handling things like an adult, knowing you must have faith to make anything happen." Interscope hired photographer and director David LaChapelle to shoot the images for the album's packaging. While she admired the work of Dave
The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was" or "The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear" () is a German folktale collected by the Brothers Grimm. It is tale number 4 in the collection. It was also included by Andrew Lang in "The Blue Fairy Book" (1889). The Grimms' first, 1812 edition contained a much shorter version, "Good Bowling and Card Playing" (). It is classified as its own Aarne–Thompson index type 326 of a male protagonist's unsuccessful