myopic

[cogs]

nearsighted people
focus on former bliss
dismissing
bad balancing good

farsighted people
wince at burdensome flashbacks
of memorial nightmares
needing an alarm

unfinished people
miss reliving
the present
while living
their past

[Pendragon]

unfinished people
miss reliving
the present
while living
their past

A very distinct view of the way life really is

[PrinceMyshkin]

nearsighted people
focus on former bliss
dismissing
bad balancing good

farsighted people
wince at burdensome flashbacks
of memorial nightmares
needing an alarm

unfinished people
miss reliving
the present
while living
their past

Good insights. I've sometimes thought that Socrates' "The unexamined life is not worth living" needed a corollary, i.e. The over-examined life leaves no time for living it.