Happiness is the truth

"What do You want?"

"I want to become happy" or "successful" would be a common reply. But by "become"does one mean that they arent happy or successful now?

For centuries the world has been looking for happiness. Seems like the  search never succeeded....

Oppressed people believed that people who were free were the "happy"people . "Free" people felt that the rich were happy.
"Rich" felt that the poor and orphans were happy and so on.

But still the question remains, ARE YOU HAPPY?