Marija Serifovic Climbs Bali's Mount Batur at 3:30 AM
The singer described climbing Mount Batur with Jovana Pajic on Instagram: she set off at 3:30 a.m., wanted to quit quickly, and filmed the summit for her son.
Singer Marija Serifovic has posted on Instagram about climbing the Batur volcano in Bali with her colleague Jovana Pajic. She set off at 3:30 a.m. in total darkness, and after just ten minutes she wanted to give up. Media outlets picked up the post on October 15 and 16.
Serifovic and Pajic are on vacation in Bali, and besides swimming and relaxing by the sea, they chose to climb a volcano. Batur is an active volcano standing 1,717 meters tall, and the Balinese consider it a sacred place.
What did Serifovic write about the climb?
She opened the post with these lines:
“I died. And was born again.”
The singer explains that on this trek she did something for the first time that she was completely convinced she could not do. She names the 3:30 a.m. start as the first test, and the first stumble right after it.
“After ten minutes I gave up. Yes, you read that right. Ten minutes,” she wrote on Instagram. By her account, the fight was not with the volcano but with herself, because “the body has its limits, but the mind can set them much sooner.”
She still reached the top, five minutes before sunrise. She summed up the experience in a single sentence:
“The greatest victory is not abandoning yourself on the way to it.”
Serifovic also says that for years she has been a pillar for others, and that on Batur, as she puts it, she “finally carried herself.”
Why did she want to film the summit?
She ties the climb to a personal reason. Her son has been watching Rocky movies lately, so, as she described it, she thought of him with every step. She wanted to reach the top and film the moment.
“I wanted to reach the top. To film that moment for him. To leave him a memory for a lifetime,” the singer wrote, and went on:
“So that one day, when something seems impossible to him, he can watch that video and remember that his mom once thought she couldn’t do it either. And yet she did.”
A series of photos of the sunrise from the summit accompanied the post. Her mother, Verica, was among the first to comment. Jovana Pajic did not post anything of her own in the post itself, and Serifovic concluded that she feels the time has come to share with her followers again what she does best.
