Hey, pete here. Im an extroverted, energetic guy with a zest for life. I am from wellington but have basically travelled the world. My major passions are basketball, science, travel, friends, laughing, dancing. At the moment I just finished my PhD in neuroscience and I am now traveling north, central, and, south america! I am very interested in meeting people along the way! PHILOSOPHY Whatever the future might hold, there is nothing anyone can do about it now. What will happen cannot be altered. The mere fact that it is going to happen guarantees this --- This is Not a religious view. The meaning of life is from within us, it is not bestowed from without. It is the journey we take in achieving our goals that gives our lives meaning. I do not think we need some higher God to provide us with that. "you will never bring it about that i am nothing so long as i think that i am something" - Descartes 'I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.' "if we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities" If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. -- Jacob August Riis