Does complexity bring happiness?

It seems as if in today's society most people would agree that the Aristotelian Principle is flawed in that we, as a society, like to find the easiest way through things. Complexity on a day-to-day basis does nothing but cause us stress and aggravation. However, I think it is important before making a decision about the accuracy of the Principle that we understand the language Aristotle used. In our world today we think of happiness as a state of mind. We feel it when we are at a ballgame with friends or when we found out we just aced a test; it is a state of being that can appear and disappear at any given moment. With this definition of happiness it is very easy to assume that the Principle is indeed flawed. If we want to be happy, we do not want to take the long, hard route to get somewhere, we want to get there the quickest and easiest way possible limiting ourselves to little or no stress. Once we start to make things more difficult for ourselves our state of being moves further and further away from "happiness." However, this is not how Aristotle defined happiness. In his regards, happiness was an end product; it could not be achieved on a daily basis. Happiness, to Aristotle, is something that one must work towards his/her entire life. One can only say that they are happy at the end of life when all of life has been lived. Now, if we apply the Principle with this definition on happiness I can see where it will appear to be less flawed. At the end of our lives, when happiness is determined by how proud of our lives we are, how can we say we are happy if we breezed by the entire way never accepting a challenge? It's like in sports; we are presented with this new skill we think is impossible. It is so complex that there is just no way to do it; but then, we do it and we're elated. The happiness that we experience after accomplishing this difficult skill is far greater than what we would have felt had we simply dismissed the idea of learning something hard. Before we make assumptions about the accuracy of Aristotle's Principle it is important to understand just how he was using the language. To him, happiness could not be reached by watching TV rather than reading a book because that is a one time activity and not an end product. He would say, however, that a life filled with reading was far happier than one centered around the television. Aristotle believed that happiness comes to us when we live a life full of being presented with and overcoming challenges, not taking the easy way out.