1.“i buried myself with accomplishments, because with accomplishments, i believed i could control things, i could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before i got sick and died (albom 6). who said it

Mitch Albom.
Mitch is living in the delusion and with false-impression that young people are going to enchantingly burst with great things and will not be going very hardworking on them. He even comprehends that those were not idealistic and made him gloomy. He begins to confuse life a little, He thinks that happiness is measured by quantity instead of quality. The fault in this idea are, He is firmly pressing in happiness like he is in some sort of competition, take control his life which is going to leave him an anxiety, exhausted and sad.