Sun light in a world of darkness and gloom

With all the wars, crooked Politians, bailouts, and every other horrible thing the media has to say about the world we live in it can make it a pretty hard world to live in. To add on to this each one of us has our own little trials we go through. However, there are still rays of sunshine. Every day the sun still comes up. We still have beautiful families to come home to. We have wonderful memories of good times we've had. In reality the list of good things could go on much longer than all of the bad things the media and the world could possibly cook up.
Ally and I found a little ray of sunshine just outside out apartment window. The view we used to not pay any attention to has a birds nest with five baby birds in it. The parents work hard all day long to bring enough food to their babies. Every five minutes or so they show up with food, usually they both come at the same time. The mother bird usually feeds and the daddy bird keeps an eye on me to make sure I'm not going to do anything.
It's the simple things in life really. Sure we have an apartment that we can barely fit all our stuff into. Sure the people that live around us keep the hours of a rock band. It all just seems to become background to the little rays of sunshine we are trying to find. I guess it all comes down to perspective. If you let the small apartment or neighbors with weird hours rule your life than they will and the rays of sunshine that will come regardless of whether or not we notice them will become the background and will remain unnoticed. But, if we focus on those rays of sunshine it can change the picture entirely. It makes the sunshine the focal point and allows everything else to fall into the background.