Question

In the haste of our lives, what are we not seeing?

Answer 1

In general what gets lost is this moment and the experience of being alive here-and-now.    Mostly, we're numb to the sense of cost in that:   the ego in its endless pursuit of security and gratification focuses almost exclusively on the past and the future, trying to figure out how to get what it wants and avoid discomfort or anxiety, and the reality of living is easily disregarded because that has little relevance to the ego's priorities.
Another way to say that is "we're mostly dead".    That sounds kind of harsh, so it's more polite to say "we tend to live in our heads" -- a colloquialism that calls up the sense of isolation and indirectness of our contact with reality:  buffered by layers of conceptual filtering and perceptual conditioning, we're so habituated to living at a distance from our experience that we find it difficult to connect with the moment even when it's something spectacular, like the sunset over the Grand Canyon... we think "I wonder if I've got new notifications on FB!?"

Answer 2

That our parents need us too..

as we go ahead with our personal and work life< we forget our parents..as if their job is done and we are grown up enough to take care of ourselves.What we forget is we were born out of them..they thought us to walk, ,they brought us up with everything they could and now it is our turn to look after them and they might be just waiting for that one call, one conservation with you.... :-)