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Actually, it sort of is. "Feeling good" is just a convenient name to refer to the effect of certain stimuli patterns: a specific level and type of reinforcement.
There may be organisms whose niche does not require them to have a state that represents the level of reinforcement implied by the "experience of love", but that is not a deficiency, and we are not "lucky" to have come from a niche that made being so useful.
But any organism would be theoretically capable of such a reinforcement state even if it had to be artificially imposed upon its neurology. It's not a matter of whether it's possible, but whether it's desirable.
If greater and greater levels of "feeling good" are what you're going for, I suggest you try heroin. Or get yourself wireheaded, ASAP. I think you'll find it's not quite what you were expecting.