Life is full of suffering. Les Miserables does indeed mean quite literally translated The Miserable Ones. But the story is not really about suffering, although each character does suffer. It is about the beauty found within the soul's journey through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
After all what else is a revolution but the suffering and sacrifice of a few for the joy and freedom of many.
Where does this beauty lay? It lays within the peace of a soul who lives it's Core Values and Truths every day. It lays within the recognition of the embodiment of another joyful soul. And it becomes fully whole in all of its beauty at the journey's end. Happiness is not merely superficial. That is happiness lite. Instant gratification is the most infantile stage of Moral development...unfortunately in today's everything and anything at your fingertips world...it does appear that Moral development of many has been severely stunted...
But while that kind of happiness may fill your immediate loneliness...it can not fulfill the deeper emptiness of the soul..
"When the beating of the drum, matches the beating of your heart, there is a life about to come when tomorrow starts!"