RE: Discouraged...
I have been flying almost 3 years and about 6 months to a year ago I started getting a lot more confidence in my flying ability and ability to setup airplanes. In my first 2 years of flying I totalled 2 planes and fixed landing gear on several planes dozens of times but now I am getting to a point where I have to do very limited repairs on my planes.
I know my planes are not invincible and that there can be mechanical failures or pilot errors but you will get to a point where crashes are fewer and farther between, it just takes a while to get there.
In fact of the three of us in our small club that are regular flyers we have gone well over a year without any major accidents. We actually went almost a whole year without any airplane damage and we fly every weekend.
All that to say, frequent crashes are not the norm. You will come to a point where they are rarer and rarer.