Actually, you’ve been caught up in the game all along.

Going to school = heavily investing in the growth of your personal abilities
Staying up late on your career track = shorting the long-term value of your body
Dating = going long on emotional-value derivatives
Working out = going long on options for your own health
Saving money = shorting human development
Taking exams for government positions = going long on the stability of the system
Preparing for the graduate entrance exam = leveraging bets on premium attached to credentials
Starting a business = heavily investing in your self-worth,
High risk, high return
Working = dollar-cost averaging the company’s future profit dividends
Socializing = diversifying your allocation of social assets
Car loans = financing, leveraging, and stacking margin,
heavily investing in ST stocks that keep sinking
Home mortgage = 3X leverage on real-estate, city-development ETFs
Getting married = heavily investing in the other person’s character with a long-term contract
Having children = going long on family pension options for the future
Raising kids = long-term dollar-cost averaging in the track of children’s growth
Retirement = redeeming everything you invested in the first half of your life
Seeing a doctor = emergency stop-loss on health risks
Retirement planning = hedging your cash flow in late life
Retirement gap = liquidate your workplace holdings, cash out and call it a day
Passing away = final liquidation and settlement of your life account
Life is full of trading, and no one can escape the gambling table.