Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.
Remember, Be Here Now.
You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as a thinning of a layer of clouds.
It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.