Tribute to an Amazing Writer

Part 3 — Some new kids

Meliha Avdic
4 min readJun 6, 2022

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https://cnlive.ba/kultura/legendarni-djordje-balasevic-preminuo-u-68-godini/2021/

I miss this guy so much. I’ve never met him, but I feel like I know him, like I’ve always known him. His words reached so many, myself included.

In the first part of the tribute, I wrote about his song called ‘Life is a Sea’ — highly recommend you flick through that one for a bit of a pick-me-up in those dark moments when you feel like life is being a bit of a bitch.

The second part is about war, or ‘as long as there is no war’. With everything going on, I think people might like to hear that some of us believe that natural disasters are nothing compared to a man-made disaster called war.

The song I’d like to bring up here is called ‘Some New Kids’. It’s really about realizing how old you are by seeing some new kids do the kind of stuff you did when you were…

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Meliha Avdic

Born in Bosnia, grew up in the UK-another war child, yes. Passionate about people and the state of society. A bit of a maverick, apparently. www.meliha.uk