I do not believe that anyone has a fate in life to become this or that. I think that everyone is bound to the decisions that they make, and that there is no external force pushing someone to make one decision over another. The reasoning behind this is that everyone on this planet has free will to do whatever they want, even if it is against local laws. It may be illegal to steal something, but the person has free will to do so if they want; laws made by governments are there to discourage people from doing certain things by creating different consequences for different actions. Although people do have free will over their actions, maybe there is an external force making sure that certain things happening, but there is no way to prove that it exists, or does not exist.
Oedipus is just unfortunately put in a terrible place. The prophecy makes Oedipus decide to do certain things that lead him to sleeping with his mother, or killing his father. Without the prophecy, would Oedipus still have made the same mistakes? There is no solid answer to the question of whether fate truly exists or not. Maybe Oedipus's situation was completely coincidence, maybe it wasn't, who knows for sure.
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