I'm beginning to believe that fate versus manifesting and free will all link in and some times we have a choice of any of them. My aunt was homeless for a while and stayed at a long term pal's house who was really creepy from the off, she knew him for years but staying at his till she found some where found he was so controlling with her, wanting to know what shopping she got or where she was going to and who she was seeing. One night they had a huge row cuz he was complaining at her, and she snapped and went off to bed to leave them space, she had a dream that night that he came in to her room and grabbed her by the neck, and she woke up real freaked out, my aunt messaged a pal about it and she had the same dream that my aunt got grabbed and hurt by this dude, and woke up the same time as my aunt. She technically exercised her free will, decided to leave, and stay at her pals, and leave the creepy dude's place.
My dad was driving home one day from work, and off the bat he decided to go in to the grocery shop on the way home for no real reason, not planning on getting any thing in paticular. There was a DUI that sped down the highway and crashed in to another car, and killed the poor driver, if my dad hadn't had this decision to go grocery shopping, he may have died that day and maybe it was some sort of fate he did? Who knows? There's a thread on Reddit called 'glitch in the matrix' and people discuss replays, like, seeing their sibling slip and falls down the stairs, and seconds later the sibling actually comes out of their room and falls down the stairs, so that's why I think there is a mix up of things we can and can't control