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Everybody Has A Dream —by Virginia Satir Some years ago I took on an assignment in a southern county to work with people on public welfare. What I wanted to do was show that everybody has the capacity to be self-sufficient and all we have to do is to activate them. I asked the county to pick a group of people who were on public welfare, people from different racial groups and different family constellations. I would then see them as a group for three hours every Friday. I also asked for a little petty cash to work with, as I needed it. Notewelfare: n. 福利 capacity: n. 能力，才能The first thing I said after I shook hands with everybody was, "I would like to know what you dreams are." Everyone looked at me as if I were kind of wacky. "Dreams? We don't have dreams." I said. "Well, when you were a kid what happened? Wasn't there something you wanted to do?" One woman said to me, "I don't know what you can do with dreams. The rats are eating up my kids." "Oh," I said. "That's terrible. No, of course, you are very much involved with the rats and your kids. How can that be helped?" "Well, I cold use a new screen door because there are holes in my screen door." I asked, "Is there anybody around here who knows how to fix a screen door?" There was a man in the group, and he said, "A long time ago I used to do things like that but now I have a terribly bad back, but I'll try." | 
