If you dont mind I would like to change the order of your sentences...
Winter is near again. I've been here before.
A year has passed and then some. Things have moved along but little has changed.
You have been here before. We have been here before. Little has changed, but a year has passed.. you see small differences, but sometimes they make a big real difference, what really matters. isn't it a sufficient difference between stopping and continuing?
I guess it's a reasonable edit to make... but things are still going in a circle
it's only when we detach and look at it from a different side that we can see we're travelling along a sine wave...
never stop, but hide when neccessary ;)