Change is a fact of life. Sometimes we hurt ourselves by trying to keep things the same forever. We hurt ourselves when we cannot let go of and accept the inevitability of change. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t some things that don’t change; some things are eternal.
In 1913, the English painter Arthur Hacker created “Farewell.” Sotheby’s website suggests that it was painted as if it was “almost in anticipation of the First World War, with the irrevocable changes that it caused.”
