I believe events are leading normally in one direction... but there are points of turning. points that has to happen otherwise timeline will change. I believe there are only potential futures. Infinite amounts of them. And that potential futures have different probabilities of them turning real.
Fate is blind... only because we are blind and therefore we can't choose. Therefore it seems like our future is inevitable. It is not. It is only mater of seeing. Some outcomes are very probable, but some are less, or improbable. I was able to chose less probable outcome... maybe. There is a question- would future I chose happen if I don't chose it, but chose other? Is my choosing of my free will or is my will clouded and affected by something higher? Hard question.

It is possible that there are infinite timelines surrounding our own timeline, futures we do not live because we changed a line with some changes. But that doesn't mean that my alternative self can't live in them.