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Thank you, but this is way too depressing.

Why start it with every terminal session? This could have been a desktop app.

There was a similar project but for new tab of browser. It had a countdown timer with seconds remaining.

The problem with both approaches is our brain gets desensitized to both the approaches after some time and it has no effect on us.

I agree, I don't need an existential crisis every time I open a terminal session

I just don't need a terminal to help me get there; I'm quite good at existential dread without any assistance

Seriously, the point of occupying one's time with most any activity is to avoid ruminating on this stuff.

As expressed in the Internet-famous comic:

(It's the "Don't let the existential dread set in" one, to save those familiar a click)

(YMMV, I suppose)