I remember better, because, despite the abrupt caesura in my academic career that occurred in 1959, I have gone on teaching the humanities almost continually to students of all kinds and ages. In case you don't remember, then, I remind you that according to Aristotle happiness is not a feeling or sensation but instead is the quality of a whole life. Especially the end. The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness. Aristotle also said something else.
Myths are stories that are so true they can never happen.
Many people don't pay much attention to this last of the genuine goods that add up to a good life. I asked a seminar the other day what proportion of a happy life they thought good fortune represented. We'd been talking about moral and intellectual virtues and that sort of thing, and the highest proportion anyone suggested for good fortune was 50 percent. They asked me what I thought, and I said 99 percent. They were shocked, silent for a while.