I had never heard of you before. I didn’t even know Jeff Bezos was married until this story broke. It’s a hell of a way to find out, and I certainly hope you had a little more warning than the rest of us. Even so, it had to have been a shock to you no matter what the circumstances.
Your life and mine are radically different; and yet somehow I think our experience as women and as humans converges in the spectrum of feelings you are probably going through at this time. The details vary, of course, but I believe that I know the kind of conflicting emotions you have had to face and conquer.
Although you have the buffer of enormous wealth to shield you, I don’t think your journey in this sense is essentially different from that of myself and every other woman who has been there.
So I simply want to tell you this: living well is the best revenge, and now that I know your name, let’s see it in the news in ways that startle and dazzle us! You can be an amazing inspiration if you so desire. You can be the hero that Jeff Bezos doesn’t have it in himself to be. You can be a household name, beloved of the people. Speak out! Use some of your fortune to make statements about how you really feel inside. Show us that great wealth and genuine benevolence are not mutually exclusive.
The whole world is aching for a person of wealth and influence who is not a common and venal disappointment, but a shining example of how to honor your blessings by lifting those around you. No one lives in a vacuum.
I really want them to bring back Mad Men. It’s such an awesome show and I am not content to only have seven seasons of it. What I’m thinking, is it could pick right up where it left off, with all the same characters working at the same company. Except it needs to go on up until at least the early 1990s. I’m thinking five more seasons would do the trick. I want it to go through all the decades, the 70s, the 80s, and the 90s, with the fashions, grooming, cars, furniture, everything, changing with the times. I want to see the disco era. I want to see the New Wave era. I want to see the birth of personal computers and the internet. I want to see all of that, with all the original characters from the original show living through it and creating ads for all of the iconic products over the course of those years. I want all the same actors, the same director, all the same writers and producers, everything. Basically just make this happen, please.