How are you going to live? What sort of vital plot are you going to embody? The choice is entirely up to you. To say, "modern life," you've just mistakenly put yourself into the system as one of its numbers.
講「當下」，你是赤裸裸的一個人，你要過怎樣的生活，你要體現怎樣的生命情境，端在你的選擇；講「當代」，你只是錯把自己當作統計數字。