It is possible for things to get worse without limit.

What’s going on?” Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and the castle interior.
“I mentioned that you saw the thing and now they want to know what it looks like,” Hadrian explained. “What did you think? They were coming to lynch you?”
He shrugged. “What can I say? I’m a glass-half-empty kinda guy.”
“Half empty?” Hadrian chuckled. “Was there ever any drink in that glass?

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

...if you live feeling like
Your glass is half empty, well,
It may as well be empty all the way.

Rut, routine, robotic. These are the three R's of adult-hood. Wake up, eat, go to work, eat, work more, come home, eat, sleep, and repeat every day until we all reach retirement, or death.