I started because it had occurred to me that everything I put of myself into a computer is fundamentally ephemeral; it only exists when the device storing it is getting power. Once I'm nothing but a memory, everything I've created with a computer is just so many tears in the rain. But if I were to pour myself into a physical notebook, then as long as that notebook survives something of me survives with it.
This is possibly going to sound weird, but I experienced something similar finally marrying the woman I was with for over a decade. In fact, I remain astonished at how much better my orgasms have been since we finalized - survivalized? - it.