The Life We were Searching for

moment, he is offering his emotional devotion in the service of his ideal. In this manner, every individual is compelled to make something or someone their deity and present their emotions as a sacrifice before it. Every person has a strong desire to offer their noblest feelings to someone. Every person is compelled to make something or the other the object of their devotion and worship and offer the sacrifice of their emotions to it. Because this urge is natural, it initially emerges naturally towards God. However, circumstances and the conditioning of the environment, among other factors, turn it in the wrong direction toward something other than God. After some days, man becomes used to a particular lifestyle that he has been conditioned to and begins to feel pleasure in it. For instance, the atheist British philosopher Bertrand Russell was staunchly religious in childhood. He used to pray regularly. One day, his grandfather asked him what his favourite prayer was. Young Russell answered that he was tired of life and was burdened by his sins. At that time, God was Russell’s object of devotion. But when Russell reached the age of 13, he stopped praying, and because of living in an environment that had revolted against religious traditions and traditional values, an attitude of rebellion against them began to emerge in him. Finally, he became an atheist whose most beloved things were mathematics and philosophy. In April 1959, Russell sat down with John Freeman of the BBC program Face to Face for an interview. Russell reminisced about his early attraction to mathematics. “I got the sort of satisfaction that Plato says you can get out of