When the ink in the pen gets over, we keep the pen under the tap to clean it.
And that’s a messy process. Ink all over. More than you thought there is.
However, after that, the pen is absolutely clean.
Ready to write again with the newly-filled ink.
Any clean up process in life will be messy.
But as much as we would want to avoid that mess, it is only after that mess that we will see something more beautiful emerging at the end.
It is not the mess during a clean up that we should fear.
It is avoiding the mess that we should fear.