Marija Serifovic Says Goodbye to Bali: I Want to Go Home
At the end of her stay in Bali, the singer posted a farewell message on Instagram and wrote that for the first time she does not want to stay longer.
Marija Serifovic posted a farewell message on her Instagram profile on October 21, at the end of her stay in Bali. In it she wrote: “For the first time, I don’t want to stay a little longer. I want to go home.”
The singer addressed the message to the people she shared those days with, and she began it like this:
“And so… The end has come. We came here as strangers. Each with our own life, burdens, fears and everything that had stayed silent for a long time, even to ourselves. Today we part as people who know more about one another than those who have waited for us at home our whole lives.”
Further on in the post she also writes: “How much someone else’s tears can become your own.”
Who did she go to Bali with, and why?
Telegraf reports that Serifovic traveled to Bali with her friend Jovana, whose surname is not given. The same outlet writes that her son Mario and her mother Verica, whom the singer addresses at the end of the message, were not on the trip.
The parts of the message quoted by Telegraf and Informer do not state the reason for the trip. Telegraf concludes from the post that the singer went to Bali on a mission, which is now complete. That is the outlet’s conclusion, not a statement by Serifovic herself. Informer earlier carried her photo from the top of a volcano in Bali, along with her message that she had fulfilled another life mission.
What did she write about herself?
Most of the message is about the stay itself. The singer admits that at one point she was not sure why she had traveled at all:
“Somewhere in the middle of this trip I was sure I had come for no reason.”
She then describes herself the way those closest to her see her. She says she is someone who always has a next goal, a next place and a next flight:
“I am a person who has no peace. I am always going somewhere, always planning something, there is always some next place, some next plane, some next reason not to be where I am. Someone would say I am running away. And maybe they are right.”
The turn comes in the next sentence, which she wrote like this: “And then something happened that I did not expect. For the first time, I don’t want to stay a little longer. I want to go home.”
Who did she address at the end?
She dedicated the closing part to her son, her mother and her friends. There is a joke in it, as she mentions that at home they will, as she puts it, very soon be eating her liver:
“To my son. To my mother. To my friends. To all those who know me even when I am silent, who love me even when I am not easy to love, and who will, quite certainly, be eating my liver in two days. But today even that is something I miss. Maybe that is called peace. And maybe it is a meeting with yourself. The kind in which you realize you did not have to go to the other end of the world to find something new, but to remember how precious what you already have is.”
The last lines, as Telegraf carries them, read: “And if this trip taught me anything, it is that I don’t have to keep arriving somewhere. That I don’t have to keep looking for something. That maybe everything I have been chasing for so long already exists. And that it is waiting for me at home.”
