Freedom brings Problems

I have a friend who has been angry for the 46 or 47 years I have known him.  The world does not run (according to him) the way it should and he is pissed!  Still, after all these years.

He recently built an elaborate tree house, and I got to thinking about it.  What if every nail, every bolt, every stick of wood, every piece of metal, every item of roofing material had a mind of it's own.  Some might want to be part of the treehouse.
 Some might want to be part of a boat.
 Some might want to stay in the lumber yard or hardware store.
 Some might hate builders.
 Some might resent change.  Any change.

You get the picture.  He grabs a nail that wants to be back in the lumber yard and it twists our of his hand.  He starts raising a board up to the level where the floor of the tree house will be and it jumps and twists.  "I"m a roof board, dammit!  I'm never going to be a floor board!" it screams in board talk.  Some of the roofing material cringes as he comes hear.  "We don't want to get wet!" is screams in roofing language, and it sticks together, hard to pry apart to be set and nailed in place.

Crazy thinking, of course.

But that's the world in which we live.  Every human makes choices, usually trying to choose paths which enhance her or his own life, her or his own family, and disregarding all the other folks in the world and universe.  Add to that predictable events of nature:  earthquakes, volcano eruptions, droughts, storms, sunny days, tides going up and going down, high winds, solar flares, asteroids streaking away from our planet or towards our planet or somewhere nowhere near our planet.  Layer upon layer of complexity must be accounted for.

And my friend is freaked out that the world doesn't run the way he believe it "should".  He is bitter that the world, the universe and other people are not consulting him each morning.  He is close to eighty years old and hasn't gotten over his childhood tantrums.

I find this strange.  What do you think?  How do you respond to complexity in this world?  Without taking away your own freedoms, can you find help in the phrase, "It is what it is?"