Winners never quit and quitters never win.

For some it is hard work, but hey, after a hard work, prize is always sweeter. Besides, training your general awareness benefits you even if you didn't know what lucid dreaming is. Might save you from being flattened by a car or might help you notice many things you earlier just walked by. Now, if you just add the idea of questioning the reality you are in, you eventually get to lucid dreaming.

What you said about your dreams that is normal. You can get dreams where you have control, but they aren't always genual lucid dreams. Lucid dream is when you realize that you are dreaming and you cannot miss that feeling. You just know when that happens

Keep trying. It is only when you fall that you learn if you are able to fly.