Healthy competition helps each of us to learn, find and know the end of our tether: our born limitations and our boundary conditions. Taking awards away (letting go of a tether) will continue to contribute to the growing narcissism, neurosis and drugs in our species: intentions not meeting expectations. The hard reality is that we homo sapiens still have one foot in the jungle and one in civilization: this is our challenge. To be is to experience life, explore and discover our natural role in it: talents and limitations. Its a challenge to realize what consequences the abuse of bad opinions and ideas can have. Awards can help us increase our awareness of our growing ability and inability to successfully understand situations encountered and to position ourselves meaningfully in this life to experience what we value. To be or not to be: know how it works and what it takes to make it work.