Many remember the TV serial Ben Casey, starring Vince Edwards. Listen to Vince Edward’s description of himself after he has been Ben Casey for a while. Vince Edwards had become uncomfortably aware of the discrepancies between his own life, which happened to include a devotion to betting on horses, and the god-like image that has come to represent to the public. “I won’t do anything to destroy the image,” he said, and he tried to keep his private life subdued and separate. Yet it was not easy because the magazines publish pictures of his horse playing and the public watched every possible moment and even his close friends began to be affected. Vince Edwards stated, “Some of my old friends begin to weigh their words when we get together now. They don’t see me as plain old Vince Edwards. What they see now is the image. They see Ben Casey. And makes a difference, believe me. Their attitude changes, they stiffen and I can’t say I like it and I and not sure I like losing a little privacy. I wish it would different in some ways, the whole success thing, but that’s how it is. How do you fight it?” -Jack Reimer
We all wear all sorts of masks, sometimes they are comfortable and sometimes we need to take them off and just be us.
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