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You don't believe in god because you can't find a reason to. Even if you wanted to, you couldn't. Sure, you could delude yourself and go through the motions but deep down you know it wouldn't be honest. You can't just simply turn it on.
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I could find reasons to, and I could probably even convince myself that I want to believe and push myself to genuinely do it. Everytime I talk about God, or anything else that I believe or don't believe in I'm faced with a choice of how I engage it and whether or not I want to continue to believe the same thing or not. I know people that had spent the first 40 years of their lives believing in God, and not believing in God and both had changed their beliefs.
"I was so sure that God couldn't exist, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I just didn't want God to exist... I started to feel a change in me and before I knew it I was reading the Bible everyday and in church... now I don't know where I'd be without God"
"I believed in God all of my life, and I felt it. In church I felt it, alone I felt it. I knew. But as time went on something changed. I lost it, I started questioning things more and finally I asked 'why do I believe?'... it was what I knew, that was why. I could find anything to keep me believing, and I just don't anymore"
These aren't exact quotes, but as close to recollection as I can come. People can change, they just typically chose not to because it is hard to and they don't normally have a reason to. I know someone that started going to church because he fell for a girl that believed in God. I know a couple that ended up not working where the guy started off as a Christian and the girl as a sort of buttrock goth chick. Soon enough he started getting into death metal and she got interested in Jesus. They met in the middle, and by the end of the relationship he was an atheist and she went to church every week.
There are tons of reasons to change, and some people do. I'm probably not going to change, but that is because I choose not to. And, for me, it is an easy choice. For others it isn't so easy, it wasn't so easy for me 10 years ago, I can tell you that.