Happiness is our overall aim, the goal for whose sake we do and seek everything else, while we don't seek to be happy for any other reason. Being a virtuous person is pretty important to acheive happiness, but common sense tells us that other things matter too -- for example, having a reasonable amount of money and other necessities, acheiving success and so on. Afterall, how could a happy life be completely a poverty-stricken and unsuccessful one?
Common sense tells us that happiness does require some amount of "external goods" like money and success. On their own, however, no amount of such goods could make you happy, since whether or not you have them is not completely up to you. Once you reflect ethically on your life, happiness must come from your own reflection on and organization of your life rather than from external goods that circumstances can give and take away.
I've decided to end my blogging days. I no longer have anything to offer my friends here. 'Twas a nice 5+ years.
