How to live is a question that remains for all of one's life.
it's like asking "what's the meaning of life?" but only encrypting the question further.
How to survive is by simply existing. Yet not enjoying it. Living is to survive and enjoy life at the same time.
Drifting along in life may end up with one wearing a mask. You wear it at moments and take it off at others.
However forcing on a mask may have it plaster onto one's face. A mask is also bound to break, crumble, then shatter. But for those truly drifting no mask is needed. The problem with drifting... Is that you're bound to be beached. Where one with wither untill their life ends without truly living. Fight the waves when needed. But drift when needed.
If you have the strength to fight then do so. Just don't get beached.