EPHESUS

A few years ago, I traveled to Turkey and came to Ephesus, the largest and best-preserved ancient Greek and Roman city in the world that appeared in the New Testament. Ephesus, which was first built by the Athenian colonists in the 10th century BC, was once the most prosperous city in the Mediterranean region. The Roman Republic was known as the earliest and largest provincial capital of Asia. It was highly developed during the Hellenistic, Roman Empire and Christian periods. Witness of civilization. Libraries, baths, brothels, shops, street lights, drainage systems and the famous Temple of Artemis have been built here, but what attracts me most is the ancient Roman theater here. Standing in the center of the bottom of the open-air theater with a giant ring closed structure, I suddenly feel the insignificance of the individual, and I feel that I will be swallowed and crushed by the giant tsunami that surrounds me in the next moment. But such an insignificant individual who is consciously nervous, stunned, fearful or even inferior, as long as he speaks a little louder, its voice will crawl up the steps and spread to the ears of thousands of audiences on stone benches, accompanied by There was a burst of echoes, clear and loud. I walked up to the top of the ancient theater and sat on one of the huge stone benches. The panic and depression just now are gone, only the loud voice and echo of the people below, the voice has not dispersed for a long time in the huge ring, and imagine that the attention of thousands of eyes is focused on that one person and one voice, sighing again Ordinary individuals will stand in the center of their own stage at a certain moment in their lives, and all moments on the stage will be examined and appreciated by everyone. I believe that there will always be that precious and shining moment that you are unique. Under the sun, the moon and the stars, it seems that the individual lights one after another have awakened the sleeping ancient theater, and the singing echoes forever...