The Power of Change

In America we have freedom and liberties that the majority of the world do not have. We have the ability to change a situation, any situation, if we really choose to. Not only do we have the choice to change it, but we can change it however we would like. That is how the American Dream works. If you want something badly enough, you work for it and you acheive it. If this is truly the case, which I feel it is, then why is it that so many just play to the status quo? Is it because they simply are doing it for money? Or have lost their internal spark along the way? Or is it because they are taking the middle road?