...Not so happy realization

Today was as grey as the sky was...I couldn't help but think; a feeling can alter overnight. You know what, maybe it wasn't overnight, maybe it just came to my attention today, I mean like really struck me. I've been constantly ignoring my relationship with people and started concerning myself with accepting them for who they are if that makes and sense to you. Let me break it down a bit. I've been preaching to others that they need to understand that's just how that person is and that's just who they are and you just have to accept it. The reality is that you don't. The same people that I defend with the whole "acceptance for who they are" argument have undeniably been the same ones who I've had a hard time coping with, and what I'm holding onto is a friendship/relationship that "was". I know longer share that bond with them, we no longer have the same morals, shit, we can't even see eye to eye; but silly me, I forgot that in order to fly higher you have to drop weight. Now that I've accepted them for who they are and they still bug the hell out of me every step of the way its time I distance the relationship we have. The argument would be "why don't I just work on it?" well this is their character and the person who they are inside gets on my last nerve so there isn't much to work on. Friends are now acquaintances. Sorry to say.