"The Natural" is a metaphor for Life?

I spent the afternoon yesterday with my wife watching the Robert Redford movie, "The Natural". I would get into the technical accolades of this movie, but that is for another website... It is amazing, though, how many up-and-coming & veteran stars were in this movie, let alone seeing it for the first time in H-dizzle (pardon my unhip use-of-slang reference; my kids would cringe, and probably are, at this reading). Back to The Natural....we come into this life full of talents and optimism, just like Roy Hobbs, when he went against the Whammer. He acknowledged that he was "the best there ever was" and thought he was invincible. He didn't just stick with the fundamentals and do his job. He had to get all flashy and arrogant. Well, along came the psycho hose-beast (played magnificently by Barbara Hersey) who dashed all his hopes, and saw an opportunity to grab his coat-tails of fame...Fast forward to 16-years later and he has fought back (a much wiser and humbler Roy Hobbs) to fulfill the dreams he had from boyhood, at the same time fighting of the cynical manipulators and hangers-on (especially when he asks Max Mercy played by Robert Duvall, if he has ever played the game. Max says, "....well, no").

The point: We come to life with lots of promise, talent and gifts, but sometimes we are beaten down by life. Do we let it keep us down and do we fight with all our might to not only help ourselves, a secondary benefit, but first to help others and lose ourselves in the service to others, who can't do it for themselves? You be the judge, but of course.....this is just an observation.