Small child having an existential crisis while dancing to MGMT is all of us

You know that feeling when you’re midway through doing something — maybe listening to a nostalgic song, maybe dancing — and some fundamentally huge penny drops in your head? Something that suddenly throws your own existence, and possibly the existence of the entire universe, into question?

The phrase for that is “existential crisis”, and it’s perfectly encapsulated by the baby in the video above (skip to 0:35 in for the exact moment).

What exactly is going through that child’s mind as he stares blankly into the middle distance? Has he just experienced déjà vu? Perhaps glimpsed a fleeting memory of a past life? Seen some kind of inter-dimensional, invisible-to-adults glitch in the very fabric of the universe, that’s pulled back the curtain to reveal wonders too amazing for the human mind to comprehend? Read more…

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