This is the final volley in my series on how to screw up your life royally.  If you’ve been embracing habits one through eight [see archives] you’ve probably already added plenty of junk to your trunk and are well on your way to being buried in dung.  Yes, hopefully, you now have more bad habits than a moth-infested nunnery. 

Not wanting to leave you as an incomplete loser, but desiring to finish you off so you’ll be certain to be a disaster to your family, church and state, herewith are the two final habits of decidedly defective people: #9) Have an “It’s not my job” mentality and #10) Quit when the going gets tough.

Habit 9: “It’s not my job.”

If you want your life to be more foul than Courtney Love yodeling while she’s getting a perm, then you have to commit to being non-committal.  I’m talking about having an “It’s not my job” mentality in all things.  If you want your life to bite—and to bite hard—and to historically frame you as a failure, then you’ve got to spread this cheese over everything you do. 

To be defective one must be a passive bystander to duty, truth and societal ills, especially, if they don’t directly and immediately affect you and yours.  I mean, why the heck should you care about stuff that doesn’t impact you?  It’s not your job to fix what’s broken . . . to challenge what’s wrong with our society and to change what needs to be changed.  You’re busy with more important things like . . . watching the E! Channel’s “True Hollywood Story about Jessica and Ashlee Simpson.”  Yee-haw!

Here’s an example:  Why should you be bothered about this supposed “War on Terror”?  You don’t live in New York or D.C., you’ve never been to the Middle East and you really don’t desire to go to those places.  So why, why, should you give one-tenth of a flip about this drummed-up, much ado about nothing conflict?  The war hasn’t landed on the hood of your Toyota hybrid so why should you care?  It’s not your problem, and therefore, it’s not your job.

In addition, why should you care about the multi-billion dollar child pornography industry?  Surely it could never impact one of your kids . . .  could it?  You don’t want to be one of those fanatics always protesting and making noise about injustices and inequities in the land.  And even if you did, what can one person do?  Also, more than likely, your kids will never see that crud or be sexually molested by some sick SOB who downloads it, so, like I asked before, why should you get up in arms about the current seven figure smut industry or the lenient sentences stupid judges dole out to child rapists? 

Also, lazy Christian, you shouldn’t get up in arms over the systematic secularization of the USA.  Stay focused on heaven and how some day you’ll be walking around on clouds with Jesus playing a harp and wearing a penoir.  This world’s going to hell, and according to your prophecy teacher, that’s the way “it ‘spose to be.”  Since any effort to remedy the situation would simply be polishing brass on a sinking ship, why should you get the least bit concerned about the current coarsening of our culture?  You’ve been programmed to believe the anti-Christ is coming, and thus, your only focus is making sure you don’t get “left behind.”  According to your worldview, evil triumphs over good in time, and Christ only wins in eternity; therefore, it’s not your job to try to change things that simply cannot be changed.  That would be an exercise in futility . . . unless of course, you’re wrong.

The decidedly defective person does not have his sights set on more things to do.  He prefers ease to involvement, vacations to vocations and ruts to a ruckus.  He purposely focuses his attention on passivity, inactivity and indolence when it comes to anything that might demand his moving beyond what is required of him either personally, professionally, ecclesiastically or culturally.  Continued...