It's great advice, though I don't feel I needed it. I understand this all very well, though I could never have put it as well as this;
Socrates said that we are the ones who must develop our own ideas, and this is so because if we look for them in others, or in something external to us, we will lose that capacity of natural interpretation that enables us to get an answer to things.
It is through conversation that I best develop my own ideas though.
But in regards to the matrix, I understand that meaning is in the eye of the beholder, but so too must there have been an intended meaning by the author of the creation. I am more curious about that than what any random interpretation may be. Though I shall concede it's not anything I ever expect to know for sure. It's still good exercise to ponder.