Is there a need to be happy?

Throughout all these years, You've searched so hard for the golden goose everyone was looking for. You had no idea why everyone was chasing it, but you decided to follow suit, thinking it would provide happiness or fulfillment in some way.

Finally after countless efforts and a great deal of time spent in searching for the animal, you found it and you really happy for the first week, but it weared off.

You wondered why until today when you realise you were just happy because you found something everyone else was looking for and not because that golden goose truely gave you happiness.